THE. BOSTON ORGAN CLUB NEV.Fslettbr Vol. 7) No. 1

THE. BOSTON ORGAN CLUB NEV.fSLETTBR

Vol. 7) No. 1, Whole No. 62 January 1971 MIXTURES - Forthcoming 8 p.m. recitals on the three-manual Fisk organ in the First Congrega- tional Church, lftinchester, Mass., are: John Ogasapian, March 21; John Skelton, April 25; and Bruce Bennet, June 20. st. George's Episcopal Church, New York, which houses a huge Moller organ, bills itself as ttThe church with the pipe organ Albert Schweitzer helped design." Thomas M1rrray, the well-traveled B .0 .C. member from California, will play two recitals in our region: Christ Episcopal Church, Westerly, R.I., Sunday evening, 1rarch 7; and the Unitarian Church, Newburyport, Mass., 3:30p.m., March 21. < A splendid .56-page booklet with many illustrations, A Snetzler Chamber Organ of 1761, is available for 70 cents from the Superintendent of Documents, u. s:-aovern ment Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 20L~02. Written by John Fesperman and pub lished by the Smithsonian Institution in 1970, the monograph describes the history of the restored six-rank organ at the Institution and provides data on several other Snetzler organs shipped to the Amer.ican colonies. The First United Baptist Church, Lowell, Mass., has contracted with C. B. Fisk for a large "nown two-manual organ, which will replace the altered three-manual 1901 electric-action Jesse Woodberry described in the Newsletter for August_, 1970. B .0 .C. member Carroll Craft worked tirelessly for the suceessful merging of two E. & G. G. Hook organs built for churches in New Haven, Conn. The Lowell instrument will in clude the nareek Revival11 case front of Opus 180, an 1855 three-manual built for the Centre Church, and most of Opus 195, built in 1856 for the Church Street Church, and salvaged from another church last year. On January 24, Ed Roadway llgave a recital and hymn singn at Calvary Baptist Church in Springfield, Vt. The 2-16 J. G. Marklove organ suffers from recently-introduced acoustics of the worst sort, but the program was highlighted by Dick Boutwell 1 s singing of the tenor arrangements of Hendelssolm 1 s "Hear my prayer11 and 11 0, for the wings of a dove, 11 both guaranteed to have little old ladies purring in the pews. John Brombaugh & Company of Middletown, Ohio, a tracker-building firm in business about three years, have an impressive list of contracts. Completed are church organs in Ithaca, N.Y., and Lorain, o., as well as two 2-stop 27-note portatives for Dean Nuernberger of Oberlin, 0., and a similar instrument for LaNoue Davenport of Stony Hill, N.Y. A 1-3 residence organ is being built for Martin Littmann of Middletown, 0., and under construction are t~o two-manual church organs for St. James Episcopal Church, Columbus, o., and Pilgrim Congregational Church, Toledo, o. Mr. Brombaugh writes: "There are organs contracted for Ashland Avenue Baptist, Toledo, Ohio, prac tice organs for Oberlin Conservatory, and Mrs. Stephen Folts, Ames, Iowa, as well as two special instruments for the New York Pro Music a." Robert Abkes of Waldorf College, Forest City, Iowa, is looking for information on Edmund Giesecke of Evansville, Indiana, who at least seventy years ago built a 2-10 tracker installed in the Christian Reformed Church, Austinville, Iowa, about 1930. Cannarsa Organs, Inc., of Hollidaysburg, Pa., are to rebuild Hook & Hastings Opus 2210, built in 1909 for St. Andrew 1 s Episcopal Church, Clearfield, Pa. The present eight ranks will be enlarged with the adding of a 2 1 and }fixture II in space left by the builders. Mr. Virgil N. Cannarsa appreciates old tracker organs and reports that he has worked on the following organs in recent years: St. Joseph's Ch1ll'ch, Renovo, Pa., 2-20 A. B. Felgemaker; St. Francis Xavier Church, Cresson, Pa., 2-12 George Jardine & Son, Opus 1147; Bethlehem LThtheran Church, Scenery Hill (Glyde), Pa., 1908 2-9 A. B. Felgemaker; and Sacred Heart Church, Portage, Pa., 2-16 Hook & Hastings.

'l'1le Newsletter is published monthly by The Boston Organ Club, 33 Bowdoin Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02114. Editor: E. A. Boadway, 335 Court Street, Keene, New Hampshire, 03431. Meetings are usually held on the last Sunday afternoon of each month. Membership: $5.00 per year. Treasurer: Alan M. Laufman, Mountain Road, Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, New York, 12520. January 1971 Page 2

FIRST BAPTIST CI-IURCH, Park Street, rJEIFPORT, NEW HAHPSHIRE. Hook & Hastings Co •. , Boston, Mass., Opus 1776, 1897. GREAT: Slf'7.~LL: PEDAL: Open Diapason 8r 61 Salicional sr 61 Bourdon 16 1 27 Dulciana Sr 61 Stopped Diapason 81 61 Melodia 8r 61 Flute Harmonique 4' 61 Couplers: Octave 4r 61 Oboe 8T 61 Sw. to: G!'. Unison Tremolo Sw. to Gr. Super 8Y§. Great to Pedal Blowers Signal Swell to Pedal Despite the prosaic stoplist, this organ is an excellent instrument. The organ is well-voiced and the acoustics of the room are superb--surely the best combination of organ and acoustical environment in New Hampshire is at First Baptist Church, New port. · The rambling frame IIGothicll building on the town common was erected in 1870 and it has not been greatly altered in a century. In the attic are the remains (the chest, some action and much of .the elegant mahogany case) of d c.l824 1-5 Lemuel Hedge organ. It apparently stood in a rear gallery until the arrival of the. Hook & Hast ings, the firm's last 1897 installation. The latter organ is in a large recess behind the pulpit platform. The choir area between is fronted with heavy brass railings and yards of old maroon velvet. On December 17, 1897, the Argus & Specta- tor said ------The new *rl650 pipe organ, which has been pu:tchased of the Hook & Hastings Co., Boston~ was shipped to town TU'ssday. Mr. Benz, of this company, is now setting it up. It will take him about eight days .to perform the job. r On December 24, the same paper described at length the renovated sanctuary and a simple woodcut pictured the organ case: •.. The gallery for the singers, which hitherto has been located .at the south end, has been removed, leaving the dimensions of the room about 42 by 65 feet .•.• The organ ..•will be turned by waterpower, and presided over by lvJrs. J:.J. S. Tandy. The oak paneling aroUY!.d the attached console supports three flats of decorated Open Diapason and Dulciana basses arranged 7/13/7 without visible supporting wood work. At each end is a small five-pipe flat framed in the Gothic style, that on the left containing a few Open Diapasons in the tenor octave; the other contains dummy pipes. The console has overhanging manuals, a flat Pedal clavier; round-shanked oblique knobs (ebony wood for tho speaking stops) lettered in Italics; and a wood shoe-shaped Swell pedal at the far right. As is typical of the builders during the 1890's, the distance from the Pedal naturals to the Great keys is a bit too much. 'I'he manual pipevvork is c.:rranged chromatically and the Swell is behind the Great. The box has vertical shutte:r/s and an acc~ss panel on the treble end. The Pedal rank is at the rear, a bit too close to the Swell box, and beneath the single ventil chest are metal rollers because the largest piPes are at the ends. The two feeders are present and work well; the bellows handle is in the chamber near the single wind trunk that feeds both manual chests.. The organ is quite clean, has received adequate maintenance, and the action is a pleasure to play upon.

The Open Diapason is on the chest from G# 0 and is of spotted metal; the Dulciana is of spotted metal and 12 zinc basses are in the case front; the ~l[elodia is of open

wood with screwed caps from F0 ; the Octave has 5 zinc basses, is of spotted metal, and ~.s slot ted to C1. The Salicional is of spotted metal, has beards for three octaves, and the 12 zinc basses are stopped pipes; the StopPed Diapason has sc:r-ewed caps and 12 open metal trebles; the Flute Harmonique has 5 zinc basses and is har monic from c1; the Oboe has mitered basses, spotted metal bells on zinc resonators and 12 flue trebles. All of' the metal flue ranks had coned trebles which are now January 1971 Page 3 fitted with slide tuners. The two-stop chorus is elegant, the strings are real~ quite pleasant and useful, the flutes are good examples of their type, the Oboe is bold and even a bit "brassy, II a.nd the Bourdon fits well under anything. There are no divided or short-compass stops1 The Pastor, Rev. Richard A. Wallace, an anti quarian who lives next to the church, is more than cordial when visitors arrive.

Samuel s. Hamill {1830-1904), published a small 47-page book short~ after March, 1867. While primarily advertising, the volume does give seven pages of organ his tory, twenty-two pages of "sche~ules" {specifications of Hamill organs, many of which were carried in stock), and a five-page description of the Walcker organ in the ]1usic Hall, Boston. The book closes with six pages of testimonials, indicating that during the first eight years of business, Mr. Hamill had built organs for the North Street M. E. Church, Auburn, N.Y.; several for churches in Cuba; a Protestant church in Auburn, Haine {1866); the Presbyterian Church, Little Falls, N.Y.; St. Paul 1 s Episcopal Church, Wickford, R.I. (1864); the Second Universalist Society, Cam bridge, Mass.; and St. Paul 1 s Episcopal Church, Newburyport, Mass. (1867). Mr. Hamill's publication has a lengthy title:- A BRIEF /HISTORY OF THE ORGAN/FRO!~ THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT , DAY./ COHPILED/FROU THE ]IOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES. DESIGNED/AS A MANUAL OF REFERENcE FOR THE/MUSICAL PROFESSION AND PUBLIC GENERALLY ./TO WHICH IS APPENDED/ SCHEDULES OF CHURCH ORGANS OF EVERY SIZE/AND DESCRIPTION, TOGETHER WITH MUCH VALUABLE INFORMATION FOR CHURCH/CO!JriiT'I'EES AND OTHERS./BY/SAl\:ruEL S. HAMILL,/ CHURCH ORGAN T:/lANUFACTURER,/EAST CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

(page 1) SJUTUEL S. HAMILL, Manufacturer of Church Organs of every size and description, 91 Gore Street, East Cambridge, Mass. Keeps constantly on hand finished, and ready for delivery, Organs with one and two Manuals, with and without Pedal Bass, built from eight different Schedules, containing from four to twenty-two Stops. Every Organ warranted to be made from the best materials, and by experienced workmen, at prices from $3 50 to $1800. No other Organ Builder in the United States keeps organs of these classes on hand for sale. An Organ with Two Manuals must be ordered from any other house, and the purchasers must wait from three to six months for the instru ment, while we can furnish the sa.11e instrument in from one to three weeks. Good Second Hand Organs, with one and two Banks of Keys, always on hand. For sale at low prices. , Orders for Tuning and Repairs to Church Organs promptly attended to. The Trade' supplied with Metal Organ Pipes of every description. The Horse cars from Revere House, Roston, pass our Factory every ten minutes throughout the year. Distance, one mile from Boston. Schedules of Organs of any Class, Drawings of Organ Cases, &c., sent to any Address free of charge. All Letters shovld be addressed to S. S. HAJIITLL, Organ Builder, East Cambridge, Mass.

(pages 9-11) A Few Important Facts. Among the many advantages we claim for our Organs are: 1. We are Practical Organ Builders, having had twenty-seven years practical January 1971 Page 4· experience in all of the largest Organ Manufactories in the United States, and six years in our ovvn business. 2. Every part of the work is done under our own personal supervision. We employ no apprentices, or young inexperienced men. All of our workmen are .first-class organ builders, thoroughly experienced in the business, some of whom have worked twenty-five or thirty years at this trade. 3. E:x:p8rience has taught us that the best materials a..re the most profitable in the end; and of this kind of material all our organs are made. 4. All our· Metalic /jig] Pipes are made in our own Factory, and by our own workmen, while other organ builders, having no metal pipe makers, are com pelled to put up with such pipes as can be obtained at the pipe shops. 5. All of our Organs, large and small, have a full CC Swell of 58 notes com paFJs, all enclosed in the Swell Box. 1Ne make no half Swells of F or C compass, a..s used by other builders. 6. All of our organs have the full compass, CC to A, 58 notes, on the Manu ales. The Pedale, on the smallest organs we make, have not less than one and one half octaves, while the larger ones have from two to two and one half octaves. On all of our organs of two, three, and four r.J[anuales, we have the Improved Bevelled Projecting Key-Board, bringing the whole Key-Board into more compact space, and therefore under more easy control of the organist. By this improvement we make a positive gain of two inches on every additional manual over the old-fashioned plan still in use by many builders. All of these important advantages have attracted the attention and hearty commendation of the Pusical Profession in all parts of the country. Notwithstanding all these valuable advantages, we have kept oLrr prices so low as to be beyond competition; and having now such increased facilities and resources, we can produce superior instruments at shol~ter notice, and at more favorable prices, than can be obtained of any organ builder in the United Stateso When any Church CoMnittee desire to purchase an Organ, and will .notify us, we will go in person, and confer with them. YJe will examine their church, and give them the benefit ())f our experience in regard to the accoustic /jii} requirements of the house. We will freely answer all questions, and explain .fully the.nature or meaning of any and all technical terms that come within the province of the organ business, that may not be understood from such specifications as they may have obtained. Hundreds of dollars may frequently 'be saved by a conference with an ex perienced organ builder, or a more valuable s.chedule adopted than otherwise would be done. Drawings and plans of the work will also be furnished free of expense, and the whole matter made clear before the order is given.

On .pages 12 - 13, Mr. Hamill discusses the problem of a century ago that is much like the electronic "organ11 blight of the present era.:.;. PIPE ORGANS versus REED ORGANS.. We are daily in receipt of letters from all parts oft the country, whose general complaint is as follows: uwe have a Reed Organ in our Church, but it does not answer our purpose; it does not sustain our Choir; it has no body of'tone. The Choir complain that they can scarcely hear it while they are singing. We are heartily sick of it; wn want something better; we want a good Pipe Organ. 1t And then comes the mortifying reflection that they paid a high price for the Reed Organ, and now they must sacrifice one half or two thirds of its cost, in order to get rid of it, and get just what they ought to have had at the outset, --a good Pipe Organ. Januai'Y------1971 Page 5 Many societies purchase a Reed Organ for the want of timely knowledge of the vast superiority of a Pipe Orc-;an over a Reed InstrurJent. Others again argue that they cannot afford to puc'chase a Pipe Organ; that they have expended all thGir money on their church edifice, and must get something within their means. To the latter class we desire to say a fevv words, to convince them that a Pipe Organ ic:: not beyond their means. We will suppose, for example, that a Society having a medium-sized church,

have raised for the purchase of an organ five or six hundred dollars 7 and can raise no more at present. To any such, we would here mal~e the following liberal offer, narnely: Yve will place one of our $1000 or $1200 organs in the church, taking in pay ment one half the amount in cash, and giving credit for the balance for one year. Before the expiration of the year, they can easily devise means of paying the balance. lifm", on the other hand, su1)pose they purchase a Reed Instrument for ~>.500, and in the course of six months find it unsuitable, and are then compelled to sell it at a sacrifice of two or three hundred dollars, and then raise funds for a Pipe Organ, would they not feel that they had spent their money injudiciously for a Reed Instrument? Host certaj_nly they would; and this is no merely fancied case, but one of very frequent occurrence, as our experience has abundantly proved. How much better, then, would it be ~or such societies, of limited means, to avail themselves of our liberal terms, ,;,nd get the right thing,--a good Pipe Organ at the outset.

In the February Newsletter, some of ~tr. Hamill's ttSchedulesn and prices will be published, but the above-extracts should close with the following testimonials:- /Translation./ Calle de Lamparilla, 21 Havana, Cuba, lhth March, 1863. We desire to add our testimony to the excellence of the Organs manufactured by the house of S. S. Hamill of East Cambridge, nass., U. S. A. In 1862 we contracted with ~'fr. Hamill to ccnstruct to our order four Church Organs of different class and capacity. The instruments were built and shipped according to agreement, and have now all been erected iri their respective churches. The superiority of wo::·kmans 11ip, and power and excellence of tone has in each instance exceeded our expect'3.tions, and rilised the builder high in our esteem. We consider his organs fully equal in tone and finish to any Organ of Euro pean Manufacture now on this island, and they are especially adapted to the ser vice of our churches. We cheerfully reco:ntrnend Hr. Hamill as a superior constructor of Organs, and a man of honor and business integrity. Juan Comellas & Sons, By Ramon Jose Comellas.

From the Waltham Sentinel, March 12, 186.5. We had the pleasure, a few days since, of listening to a new organ just com pleted for the church of San Phillippe, Havana, Cuba, built at the factory of Samuel s~ Ha'11ill, East Cambridge, Mass. The organ had two manuals and twenty four registers, and was very powerful for an instrument of this class. It con tained some novel features, viz. -- A SET OF BELLS arid some imitations of b:Jrd.s. The bells, particularly, were a most beautiful attachment; they were arranged to play with the great manual. The compass was from middle c to G in alt. -- 32 bells. They were made of steel plated with silver, tuned perfectly with the organ, and could be combined wHh the melodia, or dulciana, with an accompaniment on the second manual. The tone of these bells was clear January 1971 Page 6 and beautiful, and their effect in the organ very striking and characteristic. This feature has never before been introduced into an organ in .America, and thousands of the curious thronged the factory of 11~r. Hamill during the exhi bition. Whather the bells will be generally adopted in organs in this country or not, remains to be seen. But certain it is, we were very much pleased with the beautiful tone of these bells, and the facility v~i th which they were played .. The organ is the third built by ~~rr. Hamill for Havana, who has orders for one or two more, which are also to have the bells and birds. The musical public should be on hand at the next exhibition, of which due notice will be given.

MIXTURES - Niss Helen E. Pfatteicher, editor of the Journal of Church Music since 1959, died December 4, 1970. She was a staunch supporter of good church music and tracker organs. Your editor first knew her as a librarian at the University of Vermont. The Yale School of Music is sponsoring "The Romantic Organ" as the 1971 Organ Sym posium on March 28-30. Among the participants will bt Clarence Watters at the four-manual console in Woolsey Hall. The registration fee is ~~10, and a handsomely printed brochure is available from the Yale University School of 1msic, 96 Wall St., New Haven, Conn~, 06520. Time magazine for January 4 contains this item:- ----rre::oh from his Washington get-together with President Nixon, Britain 1 s Prime Ministel( Edward Heath caromed back to his home town of Broadstairs, Kent, whip ped up a practiced baton and led the choir through its annual Christmas carol concert. The P.M. knmvs at least as much about conducting a choir as conduc ting a parliamentary majority; this is the 27th year he has presided over the caroling, and only his first at No. 10 Downing Street. "An improvement, on the whole, 11 he said of the choristers. "Must be something to do with the change in climate.tt It was obvious that he did not have the weather in mind. The Cape .Q£5! Standard-Times for January 5 has a full-page 11 spread11 on the Metho dist Church in East Harwich, Mass. The 1-10 unknown organ rebuilt by George H$ Ryder as his Opus 31, c .187.5, is pictured as a tt •••beautifully decorated organ ••• known as a single key pipe organ. The organist faces the towering pipes, 15 in number, decorated in gilt over soft blue. 11 The ordinary router-carved golden oak pews are described as having tt ••• fine details .... unique touches in an old church. 11 The common c .1905 stained glass is 'lvery effective against the golden oak woodwork" when the afternoon sun shines. To think that the 1905 ruination of a handsome old meeting house can be described with such awe1 Troubles at the Parliament Buildings in London have caused thirty policemen to search Westminster Palace with tracker dogs. One B.o.c. member states that they are far superior to,electric action dogs. An small two-manual 1895 C. S. Haskell tracker organ was set up in the First Bap tist Church, 217 Fulton St., Hanover, Pa., last Fall by Fred Sponsler and Bob Whiting of Philadelphia. The organ came from a Presbyterian Church in Phil:adelphia. Here we go againl ~ American Organist for August 1:no published this item:- The Gress-Miles action culminates a century's development of the electro mechanical principle. Pipes speak in the traditionally clear way with no leather pneumatics to disturb their speech. The player gains precise rythmic control superior even to that of direct tracker action. 1 A useful and delightful 22-page pamphlet 11 WHY DON T lNE L'VER SING Mry HYHNS iJVE KNOW?, has been published by Forward JITovement Publications, 412 Sycamore St., Cin cim-lti, Ohio, 45202. It contains fine answers to all the usual questions and the Hymnal 1940 provides examples of the good and bad. No price is given, but send a quarter-ao!lar and receive a pleasant piece of propaganda! On November 14, 1970, 600 people evacuated Sacred Heart Church, Amesbury, Ma~s., "after a small electrical fire broke out in an unused pipe organ.n January 1971 page 7

Commissions have been appointed for the planning of the bicentennial celebrations honoring the birthday of the United States. We do not yet know of any musical events for the 1976 celebration, but similar past occasions (notably those at Phi~adelphia in 1876 and Chicago in 1893) always included several pipe organs, one large and ''grandll instrument being the organ. Perhaps some such instrument will be built for 1976, but the present state of the economy and the fact that builders hardly need to display their products in such a manner may preclude the commission of an organ. Early in 1876, E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings erected their "Centennial Organ,n Opus 828, a 11 4-59n in a gallery of the main exhibition building in Philadelphia, Pa., an organ seen and heard0'1hundreds of thousands of visitors. It was sold, apparently in 1877, to St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Buffalo, N.Y., where it still serves the llold cathedraln congregation despite electrification and some minor tonal changes. The colorful case front appeared a few years ago on the jackets of some Westminster recordings of organ music played by Carl Weinrich on other instruments. During 1876, the builders distributed a brochure describing the organ and containing a woodcut of .. the case and attached console:-

Description of the Grand Organ at the International Exhibition, Philadel phia, U. S. A., built by E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings, Boston, Mass. The instrument comprises four Manuales, each of 58 notes, 47 Speaking Stops, 12 Mechanical Registers, including Couplers; 10 Pedal ]1ovements for combina tions, &c., including a Crescendo Pedal controlling the full power of the organ. Total number of Pipes, 2,704. GREAT ORGAN. 14 Stops. 1. 16 1 Open Diapason, Metal, 58 29. 8 1 Robr Fl~te, Wood & Metal, 58 1 2. 8 1 Open Diapason, 1 58 30. 4 1 Flute d 1 Amour, " tt 58 3 .: 81 Doppel. Flote," Wood, 58 31. 4 1 Fugara, Metal, 58 4. Br Gamba, ~1etal, 58 32. 2r Piccolo, tt 58 5. 61 Quinte, " 58 33. 8 1 Clarinet, 11 58 6. 4 1 Flute Harmonique, II 58 34. 8 1 Vox Angelica, " 58 7. 41 Octave, 58 8. 3 1 Twelfth, II 58 SOLO ORGAN. 2 Stops. 9. 2 1 Fifteenth, 11 58 3 .5'* 8 1 Stentorphon, ~1etal, 58 10. rank Cornet, n 3 174 36. 8 1 Tuba Mirabilis, It 58 11. 4 rank Mixture, 'II 232 12. 16 t Trumpet, It 58 PEDALE. 13. 81 Trumpet, 58 14. 4 1 Clarion, 58 37. Bourdon, Wood, 42 38. Open Diapason, 4.2 SWELL ORGAN. 11 Stops. 39. Violone, "If 42 15. 16' Bourdon, Wood, 58 40. Trombone, 11 42 Bell Gamba, Metal, 42 16. 81 Open Diapason, ~1etal, 58 41. 17. 81 Viola, II 58 By Coupling. 81 Stopped Diapason, 18. Wood, 58 Bourdon, 81 Quintadena, 42. 19. Metal, 58 43. Quinte, 20. 1 Flauto Traverso, 4 Wood, 58 Violoncello, 21. 44. 4' Violina, Metal, 58 4.5. Octave, 22. 3 . rank Cornet, It 174 46. Trumpet, 8 1 Cornopce an, [SicJ II 23. 58 47. Super Octave. 24. 81 Oboe, II 58 1 II 25. 8 Vox Humana, 58 MECHANICAL REGISTERS. CHOIR ORGAN. 9 Stops. 48. SWell to Great, Coupler. 49. Choir to Great, Coupler. 8 1 Geigen Principal, Metal, 26. 58 ,50. Solo to Great, Coupler. 8 1 Dulciana, tt 27. 58 51. Great Organ Separation. 28. St Helodia, Wood, 58 52. Choir, Sub-Octave. January 1971 Page 8

53. Great to Pedal, Coupler. ::>c'4 • Swell to Pedal, Coupler. 55. Choir to Pedal, Coupler. 56. Solo to Pedal, Coupler. 57. Svvell to Choir, Coupler. 58. Tremolo Svvell. 59. Solo to itself', Super Octaves. PEDAL MOVEH8N 'IS • L Forte Combinational Pedal for Great Organ with appropriate pedal stops. 2. ~1ezzo Combination II I! It II II II l! 3. Piano Combination !I !1 fl n I! " It 4. Forte Combination Pedal i'or Slnell Organ ll II II t! s. Piano Combination 11 II I! II 11 II 1! 6. Forte Combination Pedal for Choir Organ It II I! II 7. Piano Combination II !! 11 !I II I! 8. Full Organ, all stops. " 9- Reverstble Pedal for Great and Pedal Coupler. 10. Crescendo Pedal.

All Manuale Couplers connecting with the Great Key-board are controlled by knobs directly over it, and are operated by pneumatic motors. Pneumatic motors are applied to each note of the Great Hanuale and its Coup lers, to the Pcdale in part, and to the Registers. There are three Bellows. The two main ones ha.ve vertical feeders, and can supply 3600 cubic feet of coupressed air per mim.Jte. An extra wind pressure is used for the Pedal, all Hotors, and a portion of the Gre:J.t ~~anuale. An inde pendent bellows supplies wind of great pressure for the St.entorphone and Tuba Mirabilis. HYdraulic J'lotors operate the different bellows. These are placed below the organ on the main i'loor. They are furnished by the Boston Hydraulic ~~otor Co. The Organ stands in the east gallery of the vast nave of the Main Exhibition Building which is nearly 1900 i'eet long by )00 feet wide. The exterior comprises grou.ps of metal and wood pipes, sustained by ornamen tal bands, above a substantial casing of walnut wood. The larger metal pipes are grouped at the sides; bet·ween them, raised on a light open arcade, are smaller pipes; behind and over which appear the tops of the pipes of the Solo Organ; while above and back of all are seen the tops of the 32 feet Bourdon pipes. Large ped&l pi~es of wood form the front corners, and ot~ers are ranged across the ends in regular gradation. The Organ is 40 feet high, 32 feet wide and 21 .feet deep. It is an Exposition of Organ-building Art as practised by us, and comprises every essential principle and device. Passages traverse it in every direction at different altitudes, connected by stairways giving ready access to every part for adjustment and inspection .. In the selection of the stops, in the voicing, and in the treatmen~ of the Organ generally, consideration has been given to the greatest variety o.f use ful effects at the least cost, with a. view to make it not alone a temporary exhibit of 6ur work, but a desirable instrument for any large church .or public hall for permanent use. No exaggerat~on of tone has been attempted beyond a moderate increase of wind I··:essure under conditions allowing its reduction as may be desired.

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Vol. 7, No. 2, Whole No. 63 February 1971 Miss Barbara J. OWen has arranged a Club meeting for Sunday, Narch 28 in Be1mont and Lincoln, Massachusetts. We wil1 hear three two-manual tracker organs during the afternoon, and at 8 ;00 p ,.m. George Bozeman will play the Dupre nsta tions of the Crosstt at the Memorial Church, Harvard University. Those who miss the latter event may hear Hr. Bozeman repeat the work on the elegc:..nt 3-33 1860 E. 8c q.. G. Hook organ in the First Congregational Church, Woburn, at 7:30p.m., Sunday, April 4. The Iiarch 28 meeting:- 2:30- First Church of Christ Scientist, Common Street, Belmont. Miss Ina Cannon, organist of the church, will demonstrate the eleven-stop Fisk organ, Opus Lr7, 1967. Common Street is between the center of Belmont and Trapelo Road; the church is a modern brick 11 colonial" on the west side and there is a parking lot at the rear. 3 :30- "Stone Church" of the Federated Church, Lincoln. Formerly the Congrega tional Church in the center of Lincoln, the building is now a parish hall and houses G. s. Hutchings' Opus 271, a nine-rank organ built in 1892. w~. Edward W. Flint will speak to the group about the Lincoln organs. 4:00- ttwhite Church!! of the Federated Church, Lincoln, a short distance from the stone building. Mrs. Allan Shepp, organist of the church, will demonstrate the Noack organ) Opus 4.5, 1970. The instrument is an unusual unenclosed, unencased installation of eleven r3:t1ks and six extensions into the Pedal division. The fo::.nmer organ was a 2-7 Hook & Hastings, Opus 1908, built in 1901 for the First Unitarian congregation. It was rebuilt in 1970 and sold to the University of Maine at Orono.

MIXTURES - Barbara Ov.ren requests an April meet~.ng l She will be on the west coast at the end of the month, so the volunteer will have to take complete charge. If any member would like to plan for an April 2.5 gathering, please contact Niss OWen soon -- her address is be lew. The May meeting will be a recital on the ttnewtt Howard-Andover orgari in the relJuilt First Parish Unitarian-Universalist Church, Billerica, Mass. St. Paul r s Episcopal Cathedral, Burlington, Vermont, was totally destroyed by fire on Februa.ry 15. The large Got)l_ic building of stone was erected in 1830-32 and subsequently tastefully enlarged under the sur;ervision of Bishop John Henry Hopkins, an archi teet who did not detract from the original plans of A.rmni B. Young. The first organ was a one-manual 1833 Henry E-.cben, which exists in a damaged state in Grace Episcopal Church, .Sheldon, Vt. ,/and the second instrument was a three-manual 1867 W. A. Johnson. The three-manual 1914 Austin organ, Opus 36.5, ;nas destroyed with all of the furnishings during the spectacular afternoon fire. One of the nine 189.5 Meneely bells was damaged, but the rest may be used in a new edifice on the same site. The loss of so splendid an architectural treasure is j_ndeed unfortunate, and your editor remembers two years of choir-singing and bell-ringing at St. Paul's from 19.5.5 to 19.57. St. John 1 s Episcopal Church, Waverly Place and lJiTest Uth Street, New York, N.Y., was gutted by fire on March 6. The Greek Revival building was erected in 1846, had just been extensively renovated, and contained a 11 60-year-old organ." Rev. William E. Soule, Episcopal priest a~d organist, died on September 7, 1970,

The Newsletter is published monthly by The Boston Organ Club, 33 Bowdoin Street, Bos+,on, ][assachusetts, 02114. Editor: E. A. Boadway, 33.5 Court Street, Keene, New Hampshire, 03431. Program Chairman: ~1iss Barbara J. Owen, 46A Curtis Street, Pigeon Cove, Massachusetts, 01966; telephone .546-2946. Treasurer: Alan }'I. Laufman, Mountain Road, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, 12520. Meetings are usually held on the last Sunday afternoon of each month; membership: $).00 per year. Februa:ay 1971 Page 2 at the age of eighty. Fr. Soule wm; a founder of The Orgun Historical Society, a man who did not mind the physical labor involv9d .in saving an old organ, and will be re membered as the priest who would bnsiJ.y officiate at the altar and the organ during a service. At the time of his death, F:.:·. Soule was organist-choirmaster at St. James 1 Church, Glastonbury, Conn., and was catp.loguing 10,000 hymnals in the Case lremorial Library, Hartford Seminary Foundation. Thomas c. Sargent will conduct a concert of Lenten and Easter music atCalvary Methodist Church, 300 Hassachusetts Ave., Arlington, at 4 p.m., Sunday, March 28. (On March 1, Mr. and Mrs. Sargent became the parents of Thomas C. Sargent, Jr.) The Ernest M. Skinner Co., llmanufa.ctureps of custom wind chests for organs, u is now located at 1 Charles st, Newburyport, Mass. John Boulten owns the firm and Roy E. H. Carlson is a trustee. It is remarkable that, the much-traveled Skirmer concern still thrives so long after the death of the foundert Brian Jones will play a recital at Trinity Episcopal Church, Wrentham, Mass., at 4 p.mo, Sunday, Harch 21. Another Jones recital is scheduled for 4:30 p.m .. , Sunday, April 18, in the chapel of the Mount Hermon School, Northfield, Mass.; the organ is a large new two-manual Andover tracker. At 8:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 13, Frederick &Nann will play the rededicatory reci~ tal on the Hutchings-Lahaise organ in the Mission Church, Roxbury. On Sunday, ~1ay 9, Dr. Max Miller will play the opening recital on the new three-manual Fisk organ in Old West Church, Cambridge Street, Bcx;ton. Charles W. Ludington will 'conduct a concert featuring the Vierne Mass in C# Minor at the Methuen Hemorial Jl'iusic H.s.l1, 8d0 p~w,, Wednesday, April 14. -The singersare to be the combined glee clubs of BGwdoin College and Bradford Junior College. Philip A. Beaudryts excellent rebuild on q..n 1869 William Stevens two-manual organ will be dedicated in the Union Church, U.C.C., West Concord, Mass., at 4 p.m., Sun day, March 21. The program includes Patrida Zirklo, organist of the church.; Samuel Ch3.se, the former orga.n:i.st and the psrson responsible for the Hnew 11 instrument; and Fr. David F. Gc..llagher. The org.:::m w2~s built for the Unitarian Church in Wilton, N. H., an.d is now a 2-19 in its fou~~!~ hoill8 t St. MJ:Lthevv's Messen(;Gr, publishc::d by St. }~atthewrs Episcopal Church, Evanston, Ill-:·;-printed thisprayer -·last year: In unison we rise and stand, o..nd wish that we W8:::'e sitting, and listen to the music start, and wish that we were quitting.. We pass our hyrnnc.l to a guest or fake a smoker r s coug"h; we drop our pencils, lose our gloves, or ta.ke our glasses off. We move our lips to keep in style, emitting awkward bleats, and when the last Amen is sung, sink gladly in our seats. Oh Lord, who hearest every p:too.yer, and savest us from foes, deliver now Thy little flock from hymns nobody lmOWI::jo The careful reader of the Newslettc:;r will note that there are many Sunday events which occur at the same hourl-It is i;]ipossible to schedule every concert to suit the many who would like to attend all of them. Your editor sue;gests thi;J.t he and Miss Owen be kept informed by postcard of forthcoming events, and it is surprising that Club members involved in major organ programs almost consistently inform nobodyl There are three publications that contain most of the scheduled meetings and reci tals: this Newsletter; the Newsletter of the Herrimack Valley Chapter of the A.G .0., edited by Miss Charlotte E. R:Lcker--;-34 Talmouth Ave., Haverhill, Jitfass., 01830; and the Newsletter of the Boston Chapter of the A.G.O., edited by .Adele c: Holevas, 44 Florence Avenue, Arlington, Hass., 02174. PLEASE keep us up-to-date t An issue of The American Organist, dated November 1970, has finally arrived r The Diapason continues in the same old pleasant format, and yo'ur editor passed a delight ful hour comparing The Diapason and ~1usic reviews of the Mid-Winter Conclave of the A.G,.CI., held in Yvashington, D.c., last Dec,ember ••• 1 The Anglican Digest for Summer 1970, informs us that 11St. Hark 1s Church, Bridge port,""in~the -Diocese of Michigan, has a 91-year-·old organist who has been a Church o;rganist continuously for almost 75 years.u Who has the record in the Boston area? February 1971 Page 3

Casavant ~reres Limitee of St-Hyacinthe, Quebec, canada, established in 1880 and pioneers in the useof e}ectric and tubular-pneuinatic actions' produced 96 instru ments with tracker-action before discontinuing the use of that mechanism in 1902. In 1961 the firm began again VJi th Opus 2798 as Casavant 1 s i'irst 11 modern11 tracker organ. The work of the past decade is listed below, a compilation arranged by opus numbers rather than actual dates of installation; the final column gives the number of manuals and stops. Appended is a list of future installations for which your editor/does not have-opus nu...'11bers • Joliette Quebec Seminaire de Joliette No. 2691 1962 2-24 St-Hyacinthe Quebec Eglise de l 1Assomption de Notre Dame 2798 1961 2-14 Boulder Col. University of Colorado 2707 1963 2-10 Kem~ood N.Y. St. Joseph Hotherhouse 2715 1963 2-16 Amherst N.S. Christ Church 2718 1963 2-14 Montreal Quebec Redpath Hall, HcGill University 2725 1962 2-9 Edmonton Alberta Haison St.-Joseph 2727 1963 2-11 Wolfville N.. ,s. Chapel, Acadia University 2730 1963 2-20 St-Jean Quebec Seminaire de St-Jean 2732 1962 2-20 St-Pascal (Kamouraska) Quebec Eglise s t·-Pascal 2747 1964 3-29 Iowa City Iowa Iowa State University 2775 1963 2-7 Grand Forks lLD. United Lutheran Church 2790 1964 3-34 Wellesley Mass. St. AndrevJ 1 s Episcopal Church 2791 1965 3-32 Toronto Ont. Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, R.rJ~ 2805 1965 2-25 Montreal Q-llebec S'lnctuaire d0 H&.rie--Reine-des-Coeurs 2855 1966 2-29 Oxford N.C. Oxford Presbyte:cian Chu:;.~ch 2867 1966 2-12 Wilmington N.C. St. James Episcope.l Church 2887 1966 2-24 Havre de Gaspe Quebec Hospitali8ros de St-Augustin 2894 1966 2-11 Edmunston N .B. EgUse Notre-Dame-·des-Sept-Douleurs 2910 1967 3-38 Montreal Quebec EXPO 67, moved to: -J Bridgeport Conn. St. George's Episcopal Church - 2915 1967 2-18 Richmond Ky. First PresbyteTian Church 2940 1967 2-20 Fort Collins Col. Colorado State University 2955 1968 3-34 Marblehead Mass. Clifton Lutheran Church 2961 1968 2-1L Montreal (v.restmount) Qua bee St. Andrew r s United Church 2965 1968 2-28 Wallingford Conn. Chapel: The Choate School 2985 1968 3-45 Norton Mass. Chapel, Wheaton College 3025 1969 3-39 London Ont. First St. Andrew's United Church 3045 1969 3-36 Vancouver B.C. University of British Columbia 3055 1969 3-43 Rimouski Quebec Eglise St-Pie X 3065 1969 2-21 Pelham Manor N.Y. Christ Church, Episcopal 3075 1969 2-29 Nashville Tenn. Chapel, Scarritt College 3080 1970 2-26 Pittsburgh Pa. Carnegie-Hellon University 3085 1970 3-27 Toronto Ont. Deer Park Uni tsd Church 3095 1970 3~48 Iowa City Iowa University of Iowa 1971 3-53 Milton Mass. Milton Academy 1971 2-29 St. Paul Minn. St. Stephanus Lutheran Church 1971 2-21 Cincinnati Ohio Corbett Pavilion, University of Cincinnati 1971 2-29 Providence Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, R.c. 1972 4-73 Boston Nass. First & Second Church 1972 3-43 London Ont. University of Western Ontario 1972 3-29 Lake Forest Ill. First Presbyterian Church 1973 2-33

k' indicated in the January Newsletter, this issue contains several of the organ 11 schedu1es 11 from S. S. Hamill 1s--c:l1lb'(booklet, A Brief History of the Organ ...• 'Ihe stoplists below are altered to Newsletter format-toconserve space .-Many one and two manual Hamill organs much like those described are still in use, but no three-manual of his make is known to exist. No "portable" Hamill is known to your editor, unless February 1971 Page 4 it is without a nameplate and the usuc:tl Hamill characteristics. Pages 14-36 describe two aportable11 organs and give ten nschedules'~~ !-

Portable Pipe Organs. These organs are built in a very compact form. The Keys, Windchest, Bel lows, and Action complete, are containE?d in one se:;ction of the Case, and is packed and transported in one Box, -- The Upper Section and Pipes in another. The O:cgan is carefully tuned, and every Pipe numbered, and corresponding num bers placed upon the- Rack-Boards in which the Pipes stand, and their position marked, so that a child might put them together easily. These Organs are designed to supersede Reed Organs, by whatever name they may be called, being infinitely superior in tone and power, -- every Portable Pipe Organ being worth twice as much as any R.eed Organ of the same price. They are enclosed in Elegant Cp,ses of Black Walnut, and h.:we Gilded Pipes in front. They are designed .for Small Churches, Sabbath Schools, Chapels, Lodge Rooms, or Private DWellings. Portable Pipe Organ, No. 1, Four Stops, contains 1. Open Diapason, He tal, F to G, 39 pipes. 2. Stop'd II Bass, vrood, cc to E, 17 II 3- II rt Treble, JI,Tetal, F to G, 39 I! 4. Flute D'Amour, II F to G, 11 u

134 !! Dimensions. -- 7 feet 6 inches high, !-1- feet 6 in. wide, 2 feet 8 inches deep. Price - Packed, ready for Transportation, $350.

Portable Pipe Organ, No. 2,. Six Stops, contains

("'I l. Open Diapason, .Metal, F to LT' 39 pipes. 2o Stoprd ll Bass~ Wood, CC to G, 56 ll 3. I! f! Treble, ]1[r2tal } 4. Dulciana, 11 F to·G, 39 II 5. Flute D1 Amour, ll !I II !I 6. Piccolo, II cc to G, 56 ll 229 f1 Dimen,sions, -- 7 feet 6 inches high, 4 feet 6 inches ':'lide, 3 feet 2 inches deep. Price - Packed, ready for Transportation, $;450.

SCHEDULE A, priced at $1000, is 11 Enclosed in an Elegant Case, built of Chestnut or Black Walnut, having Gilded or Illuminated Pipes in Front .u The dimensions are "7 feet wide, 10 feet high, and 5 ft. from .front to rea-r, having the New Style Project ing Key-Board, -- the whole Organ inclosed in a Swell.!! Mr. Hamill considers the organ nsuitable for a Small Chu:cch or Chapel" an<;l states that 11 0rgans of this Sched ule always on hand, or nearl;;r so. Can be delivered at two weeks r notice .n Of the specification, he mentions that 1'The Principal is here divided, in order that the Bass may be used as an accompanj_ment, while the Open Diapason, Me1odia, Flute or Oboe, may be used as a Solo Stop, -- a very desirable feature in a Organ of this des cription.11

Open Diapason (F0 ) 81 m 41 Pedale Coupler Dulciana ("with Stop r d Bass") 8 r m 58 Melodia Treble Sr w 41 Pedal compass: C to F, 18 keys Stop 'd Diapason Dass Sr w 17 1:-'rincipal Treble (F0 ) 4' m 41 Principal Bass 4 1 m 17 1 Flute D'Amour (F0 ) 4 m 41 Fifteenth 2 1 m 58 1 Oboe or 1Ceraulophon (F0 ) 8 m 41 February l9_7_l ______~------~P~ge_2 SCllEDULE B, priced at $1100, n .•• makes a very desirable organ for a medium-siz~d church, having a good combination oi' stops for accompanying a choir, and good Solo or Fancy Stops. The Pedale is here made and voiced on the German plan, giving a purer fundamental tone, and greater power, than by the old-fashioned method. 11 Mr. Hamill mentions that ''Organs made from this exact Schedule al-vvays on hand, completed or nearly so. Can be furnished at two weeks 1 notice. 11 Schedule B has 12 knobs, is similar to Schedule A, and the last manual stop is given as an Oboe oi' 41 pipes. There is a 11 Signal11 and the 16' Pedal Bourdon is from CCC to F, 18 wood pipes.

SCHEDULE C is a "Specification of an Organ with One Hanuale and a Pedale of Tvw Octaves, Enclosed in an Elegant Case of Gothic or Crrecian Design, built of Chestnut or Black Walnut, having Gilded or Illuminated Pipes in Front. n The dimensions are 11 8 feet wide, 12 feet high, 6 feet from front to rear, exclusive of Pedal Keys, hav ing the New Style Projecting Key-Board and Improved Pedal Keys from the German pattern .n 11r. Hamill states that 11 This m2.kes a very desirable organ for a medium sized church, having ••• ample chorus, -- Two full octaves in the Pedale giving ample scope for· pedal practice .u The builder says the spec~fication is 11 ••• believed to be 11 the best that can be compiled for an Organ with One Hanuale , and that instruments of this description could be supplied on two weeks' notice for $1400: MANUAL: PEDALE: ) 1 Open Diapason (C 0 8 m 46 Bourdon 16 1 w 2.5 1 Dulciana (C 0 ) 8 m 46 Melodia (HStop'd Bass 11 ) 8t w 58 ncoupler Hanualand Pedale 11 1 ) J..~6 Stop d Diapason Treble (C 0 8t w Stop'd Dia~ason Pass 8t w 12 Principal Treble (Co) 41 m 1~.6 Principal Bass 4 1 m 12 Flute D'Amour (Co) 4 1 m 1~6 Twelfth 2 2/3' m 58 Fifteenth 2 1 m 58 m Oboe (C 0 ) 8t 46 Tremolo SCHEDULE D is a 11 Specification of an Organ with Two Manuales and a Pedale of one and one haJi' Octaves, 11 with a case of llGothic or Romanesque design ••• a~l Sounding Pipes in Front.n A height of 14 feet is increased to 16 feet for Gothic cases and "The Swell Organ, entire Bass and Treble, are enclosed in a large CC SWell Box, -- an important advantage over the F S\!11ells made by other Organ Builders. 11 ]fr. Hamill says of his $1800 instrument: Organs built from this Schedule have commanded the most extensive sale. No Organ in our entire .List has been so eagerly sought for. They are in use now in Churches of every denomination, and in nearly every State in the Union. Being a very desirable Organ with Two Manuals, one and one half Octaves of Pedals, with a good combination of Stops, and ample power for any Church not over 100 feet in length by 70 feet in width; and will sustain a Choir of 40 or .50 voices, or Congregational Singing. These Organs have been pronounced by the best Husical Judges to be the NE PLUS ULTRA of Medium Class Organs, while the price is so low as to be within the reach of any church society, -- about the same as that asked by other organ builders i'or an organ with only one bank of keys. Organs of this Schedule always on hand, completed or nearly so. Can be furnished in from one to three weeks. GREAT: SVVELL: 1 0;:--.rm Diapason 8 m .58 Open Diapason (F0 ) 8 1 m 41 1 11 1 Dulciana (F0 ) 8 m 41 Viol D'Gamba ( Stoptd Bassil) 8 m 58 liielodia, Treble (F ) 8t w !.11 Stop'd Diapason Treble (F ) 1 m 0 0 8 41 Stoptd Diapason Bass 8 1 w 17 Stop'd Diapason Bass 8 1 w 17 Principal 4 1 m 58 Februa~y 1971 ______------Page 6 Flute D1 Amour (F ) h 1 m hl Principal Treble 0 1 m Fifteenth 2 1 m 58 Principal Bass } 4 58 Oboe 8 1 m 41 .PF.DAIJi'. : Tremolo (HNew French Patternu) Bourdon Sub Bass 16 I Vv 13 · Swell to Great Great to Pedale Signal Swe 11 to Fe dale

SCHEDULE E, costing $2000, has a Pedale compass increased to 25 notes with a 16 1 Bourdon Sub Bass of 25 pipes. The Great has an additional stop, a 2 2/3 1 Twelfth of 58 pipes, and the 41 Flute bears no 11 D'Amour 11 in the catalogue. The Swell reed rank is a. divided Oboe and Bassoon of 58 pipes. The mechanical regj_sters and the com passes of ranks remain the sc>.me as in Schedule D. I1.ifr. Hamill says that 11 .An instru ment of ours, built from this Schedule, is sufficient for any church 120 by 80 feet in the audience room. The combination of Stops is excellent, -- the Bassoon giving a very firm and rich eff'ect to the Bass of the. entire Organ, and may be used in any combination in which thE) Oboe is not desired~ while it properly forms a bass for the Oboe. n Apparently an organ of this size and all those larger were not available on short noticel

SCHEDULE F costs $2500 and would have a case n ••• of Design suited to the Architec ture of the Church Edifice ••• 12 feet wide, 17 or 18 feet high, (20 feet for Gothic Style;l) and 8 feet from front to rea:;.~, exclu;3ive of Pecl.al Keys. The shape may be varied somewhat; the Depth can be reduced to 6 1:·-2 feet, by increasing width, and the height may be reduced a little if necessary.'1 'rhe b'uild•sr estimates that An Organ of 01u·s, built from this Schedule_, is sufficient for any church 140 by 85 or 90 feet. If greatsr pc-.ver is needed, a Trmnpet to CC, 58 notes, should be added to the Great Org.s.:(l_, which can be done at. an ad.di tional expense of $100. iile have built a very l&,rge num~:~er of Organs from this Schedule, it being adapted to a large proportion of our Hodern Churches. The ]l[aximmn Strength of the Organ is here stated; but these organs are used in much Smaller Churehes wi-Gh equally good effect. GREAT: SWEI,L: Sr Bou:::·don (0 ) w Open Diapason m 58 0 16' 46 Dulciana 8r m 58 Open Diapason 8r m_ 46 KerauJop}Jon Sr m 58 Viol nrau:mba ( 11 Stoprd Bass 11 ) 8'1 m_ 58 Melodia, Treble Stop 1 d Diapason Treble Sr w&m 8t 1T\! 46 Stoprd Diapason Bass ]- 58 Stop 1 d Diapason Bass Sr w 12 Principal m 58 Principal Treble -~ 4' ~- m 58 Flute Harmonique 4' m 58 Principal Bci.ss .,;\ 4' T-welfth 2 2/3 i m 58 Mixture II. m 116 Fifteenth 2t m 58 Oboe Sr m 46 Tremolo PEDALE: I Open Sub Bass 16! w 25 Swell to Pedale Signal Great to Pedale Pedal Check Swe 11 to Pedale

SCHEDULE G is priced at $3500 and shows a npedale of Two and One Sixth Octaves·" The builder states that the stoplist n ••• is the most complete and perfect for an Org

GREAT: ('1I. Ml\.:NUALE. 11 ) SY1BLIJ; ( 11 I I. Ml'\.NUALE. 11 ) 1 Bourdon 1reble } w 58 Open Diapason 8 w&m 58 Bourdon Bass Viol D1Gamba 8' w&m 58 Ol;en Diapason 58 Stop r d Diapason 8' w&m 58 s~top I d Diapason 58 Violin Octave 4 1 m 58 Octave m 58 Flauto Traverso 4r w 58 Flute Harmonique m 58 Flautina m 58 T'lJelfth m 58 Oboe and Bassoon m 58 Fifteenth m 58 Tremolo Mixture III (15-19-22) 21 m 174 soLO: (I! III . HA.NUAIE . II ) PEDALE.: Geigen Principal m 58 Open Pedal Bass w 25 Melodia 58 Flute Bass w 25 Figura {sic) m 58 Flute D'Amour m 58 Swell to Great Piccolo m 58 Swell to Solo Solo to Great

s~[;nal Great to Pedale Swell to Pedale "Two composition pedalstt Solo to Pedale

Note: i.f the couplers are properly named in the catalogue:~ it ~ that Nf.r. Hamill's first manual was the Solo. February 1971 Page 8 SCHEDULE I costs ~?6oOO, and is an enlarged version of Schedule H. The case des- ·cription, couplers, and mechanical registers remain unchanged, but there is no men tion of composition pedals. The \Treat receives an 8 1 Trumpet of metal, 58 pipes. The Swell string is an 8 1 Keraulophon of wood and metal, 58 pipes; the Violin Octave be comes an Octave and a 41 Violina of 58 metal pipes is added, making three 4' stops. The Solo is enlarged by an 8 1 .Dulciana and an 8 1 Clarcnet LsiG-7, each of ·58 metal pipes. The Pedale compass is increased to 27 note.s and the division has a 16 1 Pedal Open Bass of wood, a 16' Bourdon of wood, and a.>1 8' Violoncello of met~l, each of 27 notes.

Mr. Hamill's closing 11 pipe dreamn is a $14,000 four-manual 11with Pneumatic ActionII --probably Barker Levers to the Great. He offers to build the case '1of any k:Lnd of wood corresponding with the Finish of the Church 4•. 16 feet ·wide, 20 to 24 feet high, and 12 feet from front to rear. 11 The Pedale compass is an up...-to-date 30 notesl SCJ-ICDUL.l<:: J has 51 registers and 6 composition pedals:

11 GHEAT: (tti. MAJ\W AlJi..: • II ) CHOIH: ( III. HAN1JALE.") 'IJ:•eble Gei.gen Principal Sr m 58 Bourdon 1 161 w 58 Bourdon Bass J Dulciana Sr m 58 Open Diapason 8t m 58 Leiblich Gedakt .{sig] 8r 1JIJ 58 Stop 1 d Diapason Sr w 58 Figura /_Sig] 41 m 58 Octave 4t m 58 Flute D'Amour 4' m 58 Flute Harmonique 4' m 58 Flageolette 21 m 58 Twelfth 2 2/3 I m 58 11 Fifteenth 2 I m 58 SOlO: ( HIV. r-TJANUALE • ) }nixture III III ·m 174 Horn D5.. apason 8t m 58 Trumpet· 81 m 58 Viola Di Gamba ("Germanu) 8 I m 58 Melodia 8r VII 58 11 SWELL: (II. NlA.NUALE:. ) Frestant 4' m 58 Open Diapason 8t m 58 Hohlflote· 4' m 58 Keraulophon Sr m 58 Concert Flute 4t m 58 Vox Angelica 8t m 58 :B"'lute Harmcni.que 4t m 58 Stop'd Diapason Sr w ss .Piccolo 2 I m 58 Octave 4' m 58 Cornopean St m 58 Violina l~ I :tJl 58 Claronet (jic;] 8' m 58 Flauto Traverso 4t m 58 Flautina 21 m 58 PYDALE: Oboe and Bassoon St m 58 D01.'.ble Open Sub Bass 16t w 30 Vox Human a 8t m 58 Pedal Bourdon Lsir;;] 16 1 lJV 30 VioHncello 8t l1l 30 Trombone ( 11 Reedn) 161 m 30 Swell to Great Great to Pedal Swell to Choir Swell to Pedal Choir to Great Choir to Fed:::.l Tremo.J .. o Solo to Swell Solo to Pedal Solo to Great Sifll2.l

Note; Hr. Hamill's printer seems to have been accurate, and thus the above stop list indicates a distinct preference for open flute tone at 4' pitchl

The following item appeared in. daily papers recentlyi SEAGOVILlE, TEX. The 25 meinbers of St. Timothy Episcopal Church waited for months until they could buy a new organ for their tiny mission. Finally, . the mission's lay leader, James Duncan, purchased the instrument. r~-~r.e church agreed to make payments until it had paid ~~850. On Sept. 24, a few days after the organ was installed, burglars broke into the mission and took it. But Dallas Cou...Ylty sheriff's deputies received information from an informant. Today, the last of three young burglary suspects was arrested. Deputies found the organ where the burglars had sold it for $i30 to a tavern operator. THE BOSTON ORGAN CLUB NEViTSLE'ITI;R

Vol. 7, No. 3, Vthole No. 64 March 1971 The next meeting of the Club will occur on Sunday, April 25, for which Alan Lauf man has made the arrangements. At 3:00 we will visit the tracker organ in St. John 1 s Episcopal Church, Westwood, Mass., a:-I-6 with preparation for a second manual and permanent Pedal division. The organ was built in 1959 as Opus 31 of the Andover Organ Company, when it was owned by Charles B .. Fisk and Thomas w. Byers. At 4~00 Brian Jones will give a recital in Trinity rpiscopal Church:, Wrentham, Mass., where the fine organ is a 2-21 tracker containing the work of William Goodrich (1825), W. B. D. Simmons (c.l860), Hutchings, Plaisted & Co. (1883), and the Andover Organ Company (1968). The evening provides a choice of two events: At 8:00, Theodore Marier will con duct the St. Paul Choir School in "The Play of Daniel11 at St. Paul R.C. Church, Bow and Arrow Streets, Cambridge. Tickets are available at the door, but reservations are made by calling 868-8658. The program will be repeated on April 26 at the same time. At 8:00, John Skelton will play a recital on the Fisk organ in the First Congregational Church, Winchester, ~!ass.

To reach the Virestwood church: take Route 109 south from Route 'lJ-28, 1! miles to Westwood Center; turn left on Gay Street (Robin Hood's Barn is at the corner); take the first left (Deerfield Street), and the church is at the end of the street.

!fiXTURES - ]~bel Daniels, a Massachusetts composer and a delightfully witty woman, died in Boston on March 12 at the. age of 92. Your editor knows her only as a writer qf several good anthems, but her work was far, far greater in scope. · St. Mary Magdalene 1 s Church, East Ham, England, recently celebrated the birthday of a chairman who has been on the job eighty of his ninety years. The AP news service recently reported; Sioux City, Iowa -- uwhen my children can sing every beer commercial but cantt sing anything about the teachings of Jesus ••• I've missed the boat somewhere,u says the Rev. William K. Burns, of Haplewood, N.J., president of the United Methodist Musicians Fellowship. He urged church musicians to quit "playing games" and 11 get about our Father's business." Your editor notes with pleasure that the craze for guitars in churches is quite definitely disappearinz,, but he plays for a Methodist church which feels that "How Qreat Thou .Art" is surely 11 the Father 1 s business. 11 After all, it's in the officially approved new hymnkl, and you can't argue with that t · The Organ Literature Foundation has undertaken the good (and expensive) work of reprinting that very useful and delightful 1877 book, Organ Building for Amateurs by ]~ark Wicks. The 287-page volume contains specifications, designs, and full instruc tions for making every portion of the instrument and, is called tta practical guide for home workers. n Hr. Baker is issuing 1000 paper-bound copies with the 15 folding plates and 208 figures; it is one of the rarest of organ books since Dom Bedos pub lished his treatise, and I1/fr. Baker T s price is $10 .OC Order a copy of a book telling all about tracker action -- and how to make pipes of brown wrapping paper1 The Organ Literature Foundation, Braintree, Mass., 02184, is the address.

The • Columbian • Exposition • Organ built by ' Farrand & Votey Organ Company, Detroit, Hichigan, U. S. A. The extraordinary progress made by the United States in Manufacturers and Trade is conceded by the whole world. The inventive genius of American ar tisans is no less cordially recognized. While in both these directions the Columbian Exposition will be a wonderful object lesson, the real revelation will be in the wealth of artistic genius displayed. The buildings themselves will be a surprise and an ever increasing source of delight, worthy store houses of the rich treasures of industry, thought and creative genius therein gathered, the most marvelous combination of the world's products this, or any age, has ever witnessed. The directors of the Exposition decided wisely in recognizing the necessity of a full well rounded exhibit of the artistic achievements of America, and were especially fortunate in their choice of advisers in the department of music. Nfr. Clarence Eddy, upon whose rare judgment depended the choice of a builder .for the magnificent concert organ, ~hich the Board of Directors at an early date determined should be erected in Festival Hall, is an organist whose name is a household word in this country, a man of unimpeachable integrity, in short, the best man in every respect who could have been selected. The prob lem he was called upon to solve was by no means easy, and a less competent man would undoubtedly have failed. After a candid and fair consideration of the merits of the leading organ builders in the country, Mr. Eddy finally decided upon J{essrs. Farrand E.~ Votey, of Detroit, as the firm best fitted to build such an instrument as would both reflect honor upon the organ builders of America, and satisfy the demands of the leading organists of the world. To meet the requirements of artists of varying habits of thought, of radically opposing types of education, of dif ferent schools of playing, demanded in the instrument a combination of many distinct characteristics. Not only had this firm shown excellent ability in ordinary organ construction, but they had already introduced many novel ideas, and given evidence of the possession of an active spirit of investigation, coupled with progressive business spirit, a combination which always brings success~ Frank Roosevelt, whose organs have been the admiration of organists for more than a decade and a half, about this time transferred all his inter ests to the Farrand & Votey co., and as this firm could thus use all the pa tented improvements which have made the name Roosevelt synonymous with artis tic work, the awarding of the contract to them was inevitable. March 1971 For the benefit of organists and music lovers generally, we give the com plete specification of the organ and a diagram of the key board, showing arrangement of draw stops, manuals, couplers, etc. The case (made of 11 staff11 ) corresponds with the general style of the build ing in which it is placed. It occupies a space 38 ft. in height, 25 ft. in depth, 34 ft. in width. These details are however of only secondary interest, the more important considerations being the tonal quality and the mechanical perfection of the noble instrument itself. The four manuals are arranged in the usual order. The Farrand 8 Votey Pa tent Electric Key Action is used in all the manuals. The electric fluid ling ering under the key ,is controlled by the slightest pres sur~, and the problem .of making a fine ntouch1t to the keys is thus made an extremely simple one. The couplers are all electric and the ease of operation makes possible a prodigal use of this mechanical device. The operation of the couplers does not visibly affect the keys, and t.hus all interference with the fingering is avoided. A row .of tablets over the fourth manual operates the couplers. These tablets are made of ivory and are of the same size as the regulation "white key. 11 They are pneumatic and are so delicately poised that the motion of i inch will operate them. The lower end throws the coupler uon," the opposite end takes it 11 off.tt The value of this device is apparent at the first glance. A rapid sweep of the fingers (a "glissando") over the tablets arid the couplers are changed over the whole organ. Striking the tablets as one would strike a chord on the piano forte makes five changes instantly. Besides this arrangement, there is a pedal which draws all couplers. The Roosevelt Patent Adjustable Combination Action is also used in this organ. The merits of this invention are so well known that we will be content with a concise account of this most wonderful achievement of mechanical genius. Any combination, manual and pedal, may be made, and then "settt upon the desired piston by drawing it out about a quarter of an inch. A pressure on this par ticular piston will always -draw the desired combination. This device moves the knobs and does not interfere with any modification of the combination the or ganist may choose to make by other means~ The pistons, in the Columbian Organ are placed above the manuals. This is an improvement, as it is more in accor dance with the principles of organ technique. Besides the combination Pistons, fourteen in number (three above Solo manual, four above the 81Jve11, four above Great, and three above Choir) eight Combination Pedals are provided, which control in the usual manner the Great, Swell and Solo Organs. A full Organ Pedal, Pedal Ventil, which shuts off. such: pedal stops a.s are adjustable, two pedals to open and close all swell boxes; Great to Pedal Reversible Coupler, complete the ordinary mechanical pedals. The Echo Organ is played ~rom the solo keyboard, and the change from one organ to another is effected by the nsolo off Echo ontt pedal. The larger part of the organ is enclosed in mvell boxes., necessitating three swell pedals. These pedals are balanced and are known as the. Solo Pedal, Great and Choir Pedal, Swell Pedal. Their location is plainly seen in the diagram of key box. The wonderful effects produced by such a use of the swell, as is indicated by these pedals, are beyond description. A crescendo may be made which rivals if it does not exceed that of the most superbly trained orchestra. The most subtle effect~ of -light and shade may be produced by bui·ding up or modifying the varying quqlities of tone, which, existing in the different organs are aptly~ combined by the artist whose sense o£ tone color makes him alive to the possi bilities of "registration," and controlled as by the baton of the conductor by these pedals. The wonderful capacities of the organ have not been fully recog nized until the present era, and a complete mastery over all the resources of the instrument, especially in the one direction in which it'seemed to be wanting, was only made possible by the plan of inclosing the greater part of the pipes in swell boxes, thus bringing the dynamic effects more completely under the control of the performer. March 1971 Page 5 The bellows are of adequate capacity, made upon the most approved plans, from the finest material, with a care and attention to the minutest detail which is as necessary in the construction of an organ as in the making of a fine chronometer. The wind is) furnished by four electric motors. The wind pressures vary from 3~ to 7 inches. There are six different pressures in the organ. The wind chests are. the Roosevelt Patent. These chests are 11 tubular pneumatic, 11 affording a separate pallet for each and every pipe. The advanta ges of this system are many and obvious: I. The action is rendered light. II. All the disagreeable features of the old fashioned slide and tracker action such as "ciphering" and "robbing" are avoided. III. The repetition is equal to that of a pianoforte. Farrand & Votey combine with the Roosevelt Windchest an invention of their own, known as the Sectional Windchest. This is a most im portant invention, as each llstop" can be voiced on its own windchest, thus avoiding many of the annoyances found in "setting up" a large instrument. It also makes possible the addition of new stops to an organ already completed. This windchest known as the Roosevelt-Far:rand &. Votey Sectional Windchest, is a great achievement, and marks another great step in advance. Having now given a description of the salient features of the mechanical construction, let us direct our attention to the tonal characteristics of the instrument; for however important it may be to produce and control the tone, the artistic value of the organ depends upon the quality of tone. An important characteristic of this organ is the large number of foundati'"OilStops, i.e., the Diapasons. Full, rich in quality, they are represented so completely, that dignity of tone is assured thereby to the whole organ. The balance of nflue, 11 Hstopped, 11 11 flute, u "stringtt and nreedu stops, is admirable in each organ. The solo stops include, besides those ordinarily found in larger organs, several which are not generally included. The Pedal Organ is particularly rich and complete. The whole tonal structure is based upon a fine 32' Open Diapason. 'l'he wood for this 11 stoptt was brought from Oregon, and was secured with great difficulty. The reeds in the Solo Organ are imported from Paris, as the French reeds are sharper and more incisive. The other reeds are manufactured in this country, and possess the delicacy, refinement and fine orchestral quality which have always characterized the best !."llerican reeds. The possibilities of this organ are infinite. The general scheme of the organ is so comprehensive, so all-embracing in tonal quality, that while it is a wonderfully brilliant and complete concert organ, lending itself to the most complicated orchestral effects, it is no less, by the exceeding richness of its foundation stops a perfect chorus organ, and would make the central point of attraction in some great cathedral no less certainly. We can not, by any des cription of its possibilities, make clear to the layman that which the musician will recognize by a study of the specifications and plan of the organ, but we can confidently predict that this Colu1nbian Organ will prove to be not only one of the great attractions of the Exposition, but also mark an epoch in the his~ tory of organ building in this country. The specification was drawn up by 11r. Clarence Eddy, of Chicago, in conjunction with Hr. Votey, of the firm of Far..:. rand & Votey, and Hr. Davis, Chicago Representative of Farrand 8, Votey Organ Co. Mr. Frank Hoosevelt, of New York, made many valuable suggestions. Thus this organ represents the matured judgment of men who stand at the head of their respective professions. It does more th<:,1 that. The wonderful ad vancement of music in this country is represented 1n this noble instrument, for American pianos could not lead the world to-day, such instr~~ents as the Audi torium Organ and the one under consideration could not be built or conceived of, were it not for the fact that America is making each decade an advance in musical appreciation which exceeds all her progress in Literature, Science, Manufacture or Trade. SPECIFICATIONS. /Ed. note: the stoplist is not copied verbatim in order to conserve Newsletter space, but the numbering and the spelling of the original are retained~ March 1971 Page 6 GREAT ORGAN: SWELL ORGAN: 1 Double Open Diapason 161 61 fB ourdon Tre blel Split Knob 2 First Open Diapason 81 61 16 lBourdon Bass ) 161 61 3 .Second Open Diapason 81 61 17 Open Diapason 8 1 61 4 Gemshorn 8 1 61 18 Violin Diapason 8 1 61 5 Viola di Gamba Sr 61 19 Sa1icional 8t 61 6 Principal Flote 8 1 61 20 Aeoline 8r 61 7 Doppel Flote 8 1 61 21 Stopped Diapason 81 61 8 Octave 4 1 61 22 Vox Celeste 8 1 49 9 Hohl Flote 4 1 61 23 Quintadena 8 1 61 10 Octave Quint 2 .2/J I 61 24 Octave 4' 61 11 Super Octave 21 61 25 Salicet 4' 61 12 Mixture 3 ranks 174 26 Flute Harmonique 4 I 61 13 Scharff 3 & 4 ranks 222 27 Flageolet 2' 61 14 Trumpet 8t 61 28 Cornet 3, 4 & 5 ranks 212 15 Clarion 4 1 61 29 Contra Fagotta 161 61 Stops 4, 6 and 9 to 15 are included 30 Cornopean 81 61 in the Choir Swell Box 31 Oboe 8r 61 3 2 Vox Humana 8• 61

CHOIR ORGAN: SOID ORGAN: 33 Contra Gamba 16' 61 44 Stentorphone 81 61 34 Open Diapason 8 1 61 45 Philomela 8r 61 35 Viola 81 61 46 Hohl Pfeife 4 I 61 36 Dulciana 8 1 61 47 Tuba Haj or 16 1 61 3 7 Me1odia 8' 61 48 Tuba Mirabilis Br 61 38 Fugara 41 61 49 Tuba Clarion 4 1 61 39 Flute D'Amour 41 61 40 Piccolo Harmonique 21 61 ECHO ORGAN:

41 Cor Anglais Br 61 1 1 50 Clarabella 8 61 42 Clarinet 8 61 51 Dolcissimo Br 61 43 Carrillons (from tenor F up), 44 52 Dulcet 41 61 Steel bars. 53 Vox Humana 8t 61

PEDAL ORGAN: Couplers: Farrand & Votey patent elec- 54 Double Open Diapason 32 1 30 tric syste;m. 55 Open Diapason 16 1 30 64 Solo to Great 56 Violone 16 1 30 65 Solo to Great, Super Octave 57 Bourdon 16 1 30 66 Solo Super Octave 58 Quint 10 2/3 I 30 67 Swell to Great 59 Violoncello 8 1 30 68 Swell to Great, Super Octave 60 Flute 8 1 30 69 Choir to Great 61 Super Octave 41 30 70 Choir to Great, Sub-octave 62 Trombone 16 1 30 71 Solo to Swell 63 Trumpet 8 1 30 72 Solo to Pedal 73 Swell to Choir Mechanical Accessories: 74 SWell to Pedal 77 Swell Tremqlant 75 Grea~ to Pedal 78 Choir Tremulant 76 Choir to Pedal 77 Echo Tremulant 80 Solo Tremu1ant Automatic Adjustable Combination Pistons: 81 High Pressure Indicator 85-88 Four affecting Great and Pedal 82 Low Pressure, Wind Indica tor Stops. 83 Electric Switch for Motor 89-92 Four affecting SWell and Pedal 84 Combination Release Stops. All but the two indicators are knobs. 93-95 Three affecting Choir and Pedal Stops. March 1971 Page 7 Combination Pedals: 96-98 Three affecting Solo and Pedal 99 Great Organ Forte, with appropriate Stops. Pedal Stops. 100 Great Organ Mezzo, I! II Pedal Hovements: 101 Great Organ Piano, 1! 11 107 Full Organ Pedal (Sforzando and 102 SWell Organ Forte, II t! 103 Swell Organ Mezzo, I! It Crescendo) drawing all speaking 104 Swell Organ Piano, 11 11 stops without throwing out the 105 Solo Organ Forte, II II registers. 106 Solo Organ Piano, I! 108 Pedal V"entil, silencing any adjust " able selection of pedal stops with Summary: out throwing in the registers. 109 Great to Pedal Reversible Coupler. stops. pipes. 110 Pedal to draw all Couplers, excep- Great Organ, 15 1189 ting 66, 70, 71 and 72 Swell Organ, 18 1209 111 Balanced Swell Pedal. Choir Organ ( Carrillons), 10 593 112 Balanced Great and Choir Pedal. Solo Organ, 6 366 113 Balanced Solo Pedal. Echo Organ, 4 244 114 Pedal to open all boxes. Pedal Organ, 10 200 115 Pedal to close all boxes. 116 Solo "Off" Echo 11 0n11 Ventil. Total Speaking Stops 63 Couplers, 13 Mechanical Accessories, 8 Combination Pistons, 14 Combination Pedals, 8 Pedal Movements, 10 Total, 116 Total Pipes, 3901

In January, 1896, GEO. H. RYDER & CO., Reading, Mass., published a 31-page DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE of SUPERIOR CHURCH ORGANS •.• , containing 16 two and three manual specifications·~---of.moreinterest, however, is a list of 185 Ryder organs at the end of the booklet. The list supplements the 1892 publication mentioning 168 organs which was reprinted by Alan L.aufman eleven years ago. For the benefit of club members who refer to opus lists, the following organs should be added: No. 169 Andover Mass. Baptist Church 170 Reading Mass. w. Bancroft 171 Charlottetown p .E.I. St. James Presbyterian Church 172 Hayer hill Mass. Wesley Hethodist Episcopal Church 173 Bangor Maine First Baptist Church 174 Moncton N.B. Hethodist Church 175 Norwich Conn. Christ Church (rebuilt) 176 East Boston Mass. Saratoga Street H. E. Church (rebuilt) 177 Salem Mass. Lafayette Street H. E. Church (rebuilt) 178 Salmon Falls N.H. Catholic Church (rebuilt) 179 North Berwick Maine Baptist Church 180 Westboro Mass. First Congregation

The four-manual 103-stop 1875 "Father" Willis organ in the Alexandra Palace, Lon don, has begun another vicissitude in its often-precarious career .. Recent word from England states that the organ has been bought for n500 by Henry Willis I'iT and a Mr. Allen. The latter gentleman will store it until a suitable place for its re-erection is found. The framework and case will remain irt the Palace until that time. THE BOSTON ORGAN CLUB NEVVSIETTER

Vol. 7, No. 4, Whole No. 65 April 1971 AN EDITORIAL - Last Fall, the Newsletter contained an exchange of letters between Dr. George E. Becker and DavidW. Cog~vell discussing the flexibility of wind in organs and in par ticular, the opinions of c. B. Fisk. We received several letters, the majority being in favor of an absolutely steady wind. Those preferring Mr. Fisk's practices are many, but have not committed their feelings to paper. Your editor received one com plaint, and a justifiable one at that, regarding the letters, but he then published Mr. Cogswell t s Current Trends and Fashions in Organbuilding in the November-December issue! -- -- Again the Cogswell writings brought several letters in agreement, and not a few wanted to know the extent of his visits to organs and builders in Europe. It was by no means a typical American's jaunt to hear a few measures of music played on a few often-heard organst However, another complaint-to-the-editor, possibly under pre tense that such material would reach a,greater audience in The Diapason or The Ameri can Organist~ really revealed a distinct dislike fo+ any Cogswell appearance in our publication, rather than a disagreement with his opinions. Whether or not we like the organs produced by the Berkshire Drgan Company, the writings of the firm's presi dent do appear to meet with general approval! In a larger sense, the flurry over the Cogswell article raises a question. Should the Newsletter become 2nvolved with current organ controversies or even dare to men tion the merit of any living builder? It probably should not, for the Club was founded (in the days when the Organ Historical Society dragged its feet in permitting the formation of chapters) for New Englanders who wanted a publication dealing with old organs in their region. While we all appreciate a good new pipe organ, our brotherhood is really based on a love for old instruments, and most especially those with tracker action. The Newsletter includes material of historic interest from all over the nation and Canada because many of our 150 members do not live within 300 miles of Boston, and they are members solely for the purpose of receiving the News- letter. -- Your editor has resolved to publish an occasional description of a worthwhile new organ, but the Newsletter will continue to reproduce Only old printed and manuscript material not generally available, and descriptions of old organs extant and extinct. Coverage of current trends will be left to several other organ publications. We hope that some day our pages will provide facts for a truly definitive history of organ building in North America. Because so much data is discovered almost daily across the nation, such a project should be allowed to wait for at least a decade. But, thank you, Mr. Cogswell! The careful reader should insert a correction on page 9, - l. (e.) of the Nov .-Dec. Newsletter: HA majority of the actions judged best by the writer •• ·" The article was based on the careful examination of more ~han sixty old and new European organs by the finest builders, during two trips. ~~. Cog~vell has good acquaintance with the products of thirteen European suppliers of organ parts and pipes, and during the last excursion he interviewed important repre sentatives of twelve organ firms, including some in Poland, Nigeria and Australia. Notes were made during five lectures at the last congress of the International Society of Organ-Builders. Mr. Cogswell has visited at length the following shops, (all but Mr. Rensch make their own pipes): Anderser. (Copenhagen, Denmark); Marcus sen (Aabenbraa, Denmark); Flentrop (Zandaam, Holland); Ahrend & Brunzema (Loga,

MIXTURES - .Alan Laufman, our tireless organ hunter, recently returned from a successful safari in western New York .and Ohio. His most recent discovery in 0ur area is a 2-23 c.l891 tracker Woodberry & Harris in St. John's Roman Catholic Church, Hopkinton, Mass. Player piano enthusiasts should examine a new book on the subject: Player-Piano, The· History of the Mechanical Piano and How to Repair It, by A. W. G. Ord-Hume. The cost-rslE./5', qut the publisher, A.. s. Barnes, hasincluded 112 photographs and 110 line drawings. Saki says: ttThe fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an agnos tic conscience; you get the medieval picturesqueness of the one with the modern,can- veniences of the other.'' · A recent UPI news release was headlined '!Catholic Church Wedding Music Due for New Sound.n The "traditional" marches and the Schubert "Ave Haria" are to be replaced "by something more sacred, n according to word from the Vatican. As usu..~.l in musical matters, Rome has left a loophole, which is why so many Catholic churches are still buying imitation organs: "The Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship has advised against the use of such music ••• n Your editor underlined the important word. The sixteenth session of the Colby Institute of church Music will be held August 22-28, 1971. The well-known teacher of organ, .Mildred Andrews of the U~iversity of Oklahoma, has been added to the faculty. A .brochure may be obtained bywriting to Paul D. Walker, Jr., Director of Special PrCJgrams, Colby College, Waterville, Haine, 04901. The Northern New England Regional Convention of the American Guild of Organists takes place in Keene, N.H., August 1.5\17, 1971. Donald R. H. Paterson, Samuel Walter, Calvin Hampton, Monadnock Music, John Ogasapian, a drama production, a tracker organ tour, and the one and only appearance of the Ryder Hall Quartette will be a few of the events. Information and booklet advertising forms may be obtained from Ed Boa&~ay. · On April 3, The New York Times contained a lengthy article entitled nnespite the Hurdles, Schools Are Attracting ]Jore Organ Students, tt and states that "The Roman catholic Bishop of Worcester, Mass., the Most Rev. Bernard J. Flanagan, recently de creed that all churches in his diocese must hire competent musicians by the end of the year·" One would like to know who judges the competency, where music.ian:s who want to go to Mass every Sunday can be found, and what number of the good Bishop's churches have a competent organ? ---- . Do you have any storageSpace? The continued closing of old churches and the purchasing of new organs (many unworthy of being heard in a chUrch) is causing a crisis for The Organ Clearing House. Contact M'r. Laufman if you G:an help during this coming summer. Tracker organs only, of course! Your editor recently heard a Ted Alan Worth recital in a school auditorium. Mr. Worth pranced around the stage and on the much-publicized three-manual Rodgers "touring organ," an instrument 11worth a quarter of a :nillion dollars" and yet one..w-3:4; with the usual wretched sound. Mr. Worth provided spE::aker-changing, amazingly un-. truthful program notes, and sloppy playing for his audience, .and the middle-aged ladies and local critics loved the show, whi.ch revealed a lack of musicianship and · plenty of showmanship. Mr. Worth stated emphatically that n ••• if your organ does NOT have 61 notes in the manuals and 32 notes in the pedals, it is NOT an organtn He . neglected to mention that pipes do count for something. · Do not forget our May 23 meeting, a 4:00 recital by Donald R. H. Paterson at the rebuilt First Parish Church on the cormnon in Billerica, Mass. The organ is a large two-manual Emmons Howard rebuilt by the Andover Organ Company during the past year. April 1971 Ap;ril 3 The first Estey pipe organ, a 1902 2-7 tubular-pneumatic instrument described in the New sletter for July, 1966, has been moved to the new First United Methodist 1 Church building in Brattleboro, Vt., by John Wessel. In good ~rethodist tradition, it is right up front. There was a young lady from Rio Who attempted a Beethoven trio; But her technique was scanty, So she played it andante Instead of allegro con brio. Frederick Archer (1838-1901), gave ttpositively Last Performance on the Great Organll in the Boston Music Hall on the evening of May 14, 1884. The programme: Sonata in D minor -Merkel; Andante in G -Batiste; Storm Fantasia -Lemmens; Aria (Dinorah) -Meyerbeer; Andante & Fugue -Archer; Fantasia -Callaertfl; Andante ·con Moto (Symphony, IV) -Mendelssohp; Fugue in G -Krebs; Allegretto -Tours; and the Overture to TannhaJser -Wagner. Thus the Walcker ended its days in Boston. Two months before Mr. Archer r s recital, Arthur Foote performed and a critic wrote that the organ was " •••very out of tune, particularly the flute stops ••• In fact, the only stop which can be recommended on this organ is to stop playing, at least until the organ is tuned!" Newsletter errata: January 1971, page 7, line 10 - " ••• seen and heard by •.• " (The organ was dedicated in st. Joseph's Cathedral, Buffalo, N.Y., February l3,-r877.) February 1971, page 2, paragraph 6, line l - "Philip A. Beaudry's excellent rebuild of an ••• ''---page 3, line 19 - William Conner states that Casavant #2 775 is in Ames, Iowa. Page 6, Schedule F - add (0 0 ) after the Swell Stop'd Diapason and Oboe-:---{Your editor usues such signs to indicate the note on which a short-compass stop begins.) March, 1971, page l, - Mr. Baker t s secretary probably erred; Organ Building for .Amateurswas publishe(j in 1887. - ' On April 3, Thomas Hurray played a recital on the two-manual 184.5 Henry Erben' organ in the French Huguenot Church, Charleston, S.C. The notes mentioned that "Henry Erben, one of America's greatest organ builders, placed seventeen of his instruments in Charleston churches. Only this one, which is well known throughout the United States, remains in use. The others were destroyed by fire, neglect, or ignorance." J!fr. Hurray's programme: Sonata in A Hajor -Mendelssohn; My Young Life Hath an End (six variations) -&veelinck; Voluntary II in A minor and Voluntary IV in F Major -Stanley; Pastorale (Opus 19) -Franck; Pastorale and Fugue in C minor -Bach. The increase of postage rates usually means decrease in service. A few Club members in the Portsmouth, N.H. region did not receive the January Newsletter, and the mailings~ carefully checked with the membership list each month. Send a post card to the editor if you miss an issue. A recent visitor at a Club meeting was Donovan Ryan, A.R.c.o., 269 Jersey Road, Osterley, Middlesex, England. Mr. Ryan has played for more than forty years at Heston Parish Church, and the organ is an unaltered electric two-manual Casson. Wisconsin town names include Appleton, Jardine and Stevens Point. Does anybody know of other organ-builders honored by place names in trorth .A.i'nerica? F. Robert Roche is rebuilding .the large c.l904 Hutchings-Votey organ in ]~morial Unitarian Church, Fairhaven, Mass. The building is a stunning 'lcathedralesque" stone Gothic structure with the organ divided in the tr chancel." When completed as his Opus 10, Mr. Roche will have provided a three-manual instrument of five divisions and 3,235 pipes; new action, new chests, etc. The stc.. plist is somewhat complicated for publication here, but we asrume that I'ifr• Roche will provide a detailed dedication program for the public. The organ is rather close to the ocean and considerable work has been done to eliminate humidity problems in the woodwork. A little more about Hilborne Roosevelt 1 s use of French reeds : the New York organ builder visited Paul Ferat in 1878, and wrote in his diary the price lists of Ferat reeds dated 1874 and 1875. In those d~ys, you could buy a 16' Trumpet of 56 pipes for $154; a small-scaled 8 1 Trumpet for $94.50; an Oboe and Bassoon for $89.25; a Vox Humana for $57.75; a Clarion for $52.50; and a 27-note 16' Bombarde for $252.001 April 1971 Page 4 An uncommon and great joy in the life of many a Club member is the discovery of an \opus list of the work of a.n 11 earlyn iunerican organ-builder. While al1thentic lists of organs by William B. D. Simmons and George Stevens have not been found, 4ardly a year passes without the finding of an opus list. Your editor and L. vr. Leonard recently found in a basement near Worcester, Mass., several rat-ridden piles of old organ material, and one catalog published about 1885 is that of L. C. HAPEISON & CO. of New York. Mr. Lewis c. Harrison (1838-1918) was the successor of Henry Erben (1800-1884), and the catalogue contains a list of 102 instruments. An insert probably published in 1892 lists an additional 49 ip.stru..11ents and indicates that Mr. Harrison was at that time turning to considerable use of tubular-pneumatic action. Several fine Har rison organs of the 1890's are in use with such action and slider chests. 'Though the catalogue states that the firm produced more than 1400 organs prior to 1875, Harrison nameplates in the 1890's bore numbers in the 1300 r s. In the 1880's the factory was at 260 and 262 w.. 28th St., but the main office and factory were moved to Bloomfield, N.J., in 1891, and a New York office was maintained at 8 E. 18th St. 1Jlr. Harrison's associates were F. A. and J. C. Pettit. Nearly all of the first 31 organs on the list are mentioned in Erben literature and are dated from 1875 through 1878. One may assume that Harrison was responsible for those instruments, which definitely bore !he Erben nameplate. The opus list is here adapted from the ~wo publications mentioned above; the last column gives the number of manuals:-

1. St. James' Episcopal Church Richmond, Va. 2 2. Masonic Temple New York, N.Y. 3 3. St. Patrick's Cathedral, R. C. Newark, N.J. 3 4. St. George •.s Episcopal Church Fredericksburg, va. 2 5- Calvary Episcopal Church Memphis, Tenn. 2 6. St • Mat thew 's R • C• Church Washington, D.C. 2 7. St. Hary 1s R. C. Church Glens Falls, N.Y. 2 8. Tr~nity Episcopal Church Williamsport, Pa. 2 9. st. Anthony's R. C. Church Greenpoint, N.Y. 3 10. Church of the In~aculate Conception, R.C. Birmingh~11, Conn. 2 '11. St. Mary's R. C. Church Birmingham, Conn. 1 12. St. Peter's R. C. Church Danbury, conn • 1 13. Church of the Good Shepherd, Episcopal Raleigh, N.. C. 1 14. Oltman r s Lodge, Masonic Brooklyn, N.Y. 1 15. St. Patrick's Chapel, R. C. Hartford, Conn. 1 16. St. Patrickts Cathedral, R. C. Hartford, Conn. 3 17. St. Mary's R. C. Church, Lakeville, Conn. 1 18. St. Malachi 1 s R. C. Church Cleveland, Ohio 1 19. St. Michael's Monastery, R. C. West Hoboken, N.J. 2 20. St. Agnes 1 R. C. Church New York, N.Y. 3 21. St. Augustine's Episcopal Church New York, N.Y. 2 22. First Presbyterian Church Bound Brook, N.J. 2 23. Convent of Visitation, R. C. Washington, D.C. 1. 24. st. Mary's R. C. Church Portland, Conn. 2 25. First Presbyterian Church Nyack, N.Y. 2 26. Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church Richmond, Va. 2 27. Mr. W~ E. Tanner Ric mond, Va. 2 28. Presbyterian Church Clarksville, Tenn. 2 29. Five Points House of Industry New York, l\T .Y. 2 30. St. John 1 s R. C. Church East Albany, N.Y. 1 31. St. John's Anglican Church St. John, N.B., Canada 2 32. Prof. George F. LeJeune New York, N.Y. 2 33. First Presbyterian Church Liberty, Va. 2 34. St. Augustine's R. C. Church Newark, N.J. 2 35. Temple Mishken Israel Selma, Ala. 1 36. St. Joseph's R. C. Church Newark, N.J. 2 April 1971 Page 5 37. Christ Episcopal Church German town, Pa. rebuilt 2 38. Second Presbyterian Ohurch Paducah, Ky. 2 39. Mr. R. V. D. Wood . Sparkill, N.Y. 2 40. South Park Presbyterian Church Newark, N.J. rebuilt 3 41. Grace Episcopal Church Petersburg, Va. 2 42. Second Presbyterian Church Petersburg, va. 2' 43. ~ilr. C. D. Spencer Clifton, N.J. 2 44. Presbyterian Church Mahopac Falls, N.Y. 2 45. First Baptist Church Atlanta, Ga •. 2 46. Central Park Baptist Church New York, N.Y. 2 47. Morris K. Jesup, Rivington Street Presbyterian Chapel New York, N.Y. 1 48. St. John'S Cathedral, R. C. Paterson, N.J. 3 49. Church of St. John the Evangelist, R.C. New York, N.Y. 2 5o. Leigh Street Baptist Church Richmond, va. 2 51. Mr. William H. Wilson New York, N.Y. 2 52. Jewish Temple Newark, N.J. 2 53. North Reformed Dutch Church Passaic, N.J. 2 54. Clinton Street Congregational Church Newark, N.J. 2 55. St. John 1s R. C. Church Madison, N.J. rebuilt 1 56. First Presbyterian Church South Orange, N.J. rebuilt 2 57. First Baptist Church Passaic, N.J. 2 58. Emanuel Reformed Episcopal Church Newark, N.J. 2 59. Universalist Church ]1ount Vern on, N.Y. rebuilt 1 60. Memorial Presbyterian Church Brooklyn, N.Y. 2 61. Church of the Disciples of Christ New York, N.Y. 2 62. St. John's Episcopal Church Wythevill.e, va. rebuilt 1 63. First Presbyterian Church Bloomfield, N.J. 2 64. Metropolitan Presbyterian Church Washington, D.C. 2 65. Broadway Tabernacle, Congregational New York, N.Y. rebuilt 3 66. Twenty-fourth Street M. E. Church New York, N.Y. 2 67. English Lutheran Church Omaha, Neb. 2 68. Swedish Lutheran Church Brooklyn, N.Y. 2 69. Christ Episcopal Church Short Hills, N.J. 2 70. St. James' Lutheran Church Ashland, Pa. 1 71. St. Peter's Episcopal Church New York, N.Y. rebuilt 3 72. Lafayette Methodist Episcopal Church Jersey City, N.J. 2 73. First Methodist Protestant Church Newark, N.J. 2 74. St. Luke's Episcopal Church New York, N.Y. 2 75. Grace Episcopal Church Newark, N.J. 3 76. First German Presbyterian Church Newark, N.J. 2 77. Second German Presbyterian Church Newark, N.J. rebuilt 2 78. First African Baptist Church Richmond, Va. 79. First Reformed Church Flatbush, L.I., N.Y. 3 80. St. Raphael's R.C. Church New York, N.Y. 2 81. Christ Episcopal Church Riverton, N.J. 2 82. First Presbyterian Church Newark, N.J. 3 83 • Roxboro Baptist Church Philadelphia, Pa. 2 84. Metropolitan Conservatory of Music New York, N.Y. 2 85. Second Presbyterian Church Newa.rk, N.J. 3 86. First Presbyterian Church Carbondale, Pa. 2 87. Trinity Episcopal Church Cranford, N.J. 1 88 • St. Mark's Episcopal Church Orange, N. J. rebuilt 2 89. Memorial Presbyterian Church Newark, N.J. 2 90. ]rethodist Episcopal Church Hackettstown, N.J. 2 91. calvary Episcopal Church Conshohocken, Pa. 2 92. Church of the Holy Apostles, Episcopal New York, N.Y. rebuilt 2 93. Grace Episcopal Church East Saginaw, Mich. 2 94. St. Paul1 s Episcopal Church Newark, N.J. 2 April 1971 Page 6 95. St. Paul's Episcopal Church Chattanooga, Tenn. 2 96. Grace Episcopal Church Rich.rnond, Va. 2 97- Lutheran Church Osnaburg, Ohio 2 98. Methodist Episcopal Church Greenville, N.J. 2 99. St. Michael's R. C. Church New York, N.Y. rebuilt 3 100. First Presbyterian Church vrayne, Pa. 2 101. Baptist ChlJ.rch · Somerville, N.J. 1 102. Reformed Dutch Church Fordham, N.Y. 2

11Recent Organs. 11 (c.l885-1892) First German Presbyterian Church Orange, N.J. 2 Christ Episcopal Church Newton, N.J. 2 Trinity Episcopal. Church Collinsville, Conn. 1 156th Street Reformed Church New York, N.Y. 1 John Reisenweber, Lodge New York, N.Y.,, 1 First Congregational Church East Orange, N.J. 2 First Congregational Church Birmingham, Conn. 2 Walter Luttgen, Parlor Linden, N.J. 2 St. Luke's Episcopal Church 11ontclair, N.J. 3 St. Paul's Methodist Church Newark, N.J. 3 Christ Episcopal Church East Orange, N.J. 3 First Presbyterian Church Hightstown,· N.J. 2 Five Points House of Industry New York, N.Y. 2 Trinity Episcopal Church Bergen Point, N.J. 2 First Baptist Church Hoboken, N.J. 2 Church of the Good Shepherd, Episcopal Hamburgh, N.J. 1 First Reformed Church Newark, N.J. 2 Bethel Presbyterian Church East Orange, N.J. 2 First Presbyterian Church Lakewood, N.J. 2 Temple Israel Brooklyn, N.Y. 2 Christ Episcopal Church Middle Haddam, Conn. 2 First Baptist Church Bloomfield, N.J. 2 First Baptist Church East Orange, N.J. 2 Church of St. John the Evangelist, R.C. ~fuite Plains, N.Y. 2 Christ Episcopal Church Jersey City, N.J. 2 Baptist Church Passaic, N. J. 2 Church of the Sacred Hea.rt, R.. C. Bloomfield, N.J. 2 First Baptist Church Waterville, Maine 2 Reformed Church Paramus, N.J. 2 Christ Episcopal Church, Bedford Avenue Brooklyn, N.Y. rebuilt 2 St. Luke's Episcopal Church New York, N.Y. 3 Christ Episcopal Church South Amboy, N.J. rebuilt 2 First Congregational Church Newark, N.J. £: Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church New York, N.Y. rebuilt 2 Reformed.Church Franklin Park, N.J. 2 Retreat of St. Paul of the Cross, R. C. Pittsburgh, Pa. 2 St. Paul's ~~thodist Church Ocean Grove, N.. J. rebuilt 2 Presbyterian Church Jamesburg, (N.J. 2 Methodist Church Ba; Shore, N.Y. 2 Arlington Avenue Presbyterian Church East Orange, N.J. 2 Ramapo Presbyterian Church Hillburn, N.Y. 1 st. Barnabas I Episcopal Church/ Brooklyn, N.Y. 2 Cranston Street Baptist Church Providence~ R.I. 2 Christ Episcopal Church Bloomfield, N.J. 2 South Park Presbyterian Church Newark, N.J. 3 First Universalist Church Danbury, Conn. 2 St. Peter's Episcopal Church Fernadina, Fla. 2 April 1971 Page 7

St. Luke's 1~thodist Church Newark, N.J.. rebuilt 2 First Presbyterian Church Newton, 1J. J. 2

SIX l'liiE RUN REFORMED CHURCH, FRANKLIN PARK, NEl"l:! JERSEY. L .. c. Harrison & Co., New York, N.Y., Opus 1337, c.l892. GREAT: Sl!JELL: PEDAL: Open Diapason 81 58 Bourdon Bass 161 12 Double Open 16 1 27 Gamba 8t 58 Bourdon 16 1 46 Bourdon J.6r 27 Dulciana 8t 58 Open Diapason Sr 58 Melodia Sr 58 AEoline Sr 58 Couplers: (by "pistons11 ) iWoppel Flute 8t 46 Stop9 Diapason 8t 58 Coup. Sw. to Gr. Principal 4' 58 Violina 4' 58 Coup. Sw. to Gr. 8Y§. Harmonic Flute 58 Wald Flute 58 4' ! 4' Coup. Gr. to Fed. TweJ.fth 2 2/3 I 58 Piccolo 2t 58 Coup. Sw. to Fed. Fifteenth 2t 58 Cornet III 174 Unlabeled combination pedals: Trumpet 8t 58 Oboe Sr 46 Sr Great Piano Swe11 Piano Bassoon 12 Great Forte Swell Forte *bass 12 from Melodia Tremolo

Your editor vi~ited this pleasing organ five years ago and hopes that it is still intact. The sanctuary contains fine woodwork, galleries on three side8 and some elegant chandeliers. The organ stands in a recess behind the pulpit platform, and above the impost are 7 woodless flats of once-decorated Open Diapason, GajTiba, Dulci ana and dummy pipes arranged 3/9/3/13/3/9/3~ The interior of the attached console is finished in black ana has overhanging manuals; a flat Pedal clavier; a wood Swell pedal at the right; oblique, round-shanked knobs lettered in Italics; a Chimes knob that perhaps once operated a Bellows Signal; rton" and 11 off11 couplers in the key slips; and an ivory nameplate that, like those on later Harrison organs, gives 11 New Yorktt as the address. The opus numbers of Harrison follow those arbitrarily as signed to Erben organs. The key actton is tubular-pneumattc, and while light, not especially pleasant to operate. The stop, coupler and combination action is mechanical, and the chests are of the slider type. The instrument is very well-made, and despite some soft upperwork, it is tonally outstanding for the period. The Trumpet is exceptionally good. The Swell box is behind the Great and below the vertical shades are two panels for Oboe-tuning ~ccess. There are three feeders, once operated by a water motor. The organ has no mitered pipes. The 8 1 flutes in the Great are entirely of wood with har~Jood fronts; the Harmonic Flute is of open metal with arched mouths, and is harmonic from c1; there is zinc only in the resonators of the lowest 18 Trumpet pipes, and the top 9 are flue pipes. The Swell Bourdon Bass, 6 Open Diapason and 6 AEoline pipes are unenclosed at the sides of the box; the Stop9 Diapason has 34 metal chimney flutes in the treble; the Violina is a small Principal; the Wald Flute is of open wood with inverted mouths and hardwood fronts, with 12 open metal trebles; the 12-1.5-17 Cornet has no breaks; the Oboe and Bassoon, like the Trmppet, is a spotted metal rank with slots and the top 9 pipes are flues. The Pedal Double Open has small sliding panels for tuning the basses.

In 1904, Charles-~1arie Wider wrote The Technique of the Modern Orchestra, which contains six chapters on the Organ. The following t..~;:Gerpts are from Edward Suddard' s translation (London, 1906): The solidity of the simple mechanism of the 18th century Organs has, so far, defied competit~on, and held its own against all modern systems, whether pneu~. matic or electric. Nothing can surpass it in principle, but if this principle has been religiously respected by the great organ-builders, it is nevertheless true that its application has been greatly improved within the last So years. The ingenious invention of Barker, an English watchmaker, now allows of coupling together any number of keyboards without affecting the touch, which April 1971 Page 8 remains as light as that of an Erard Pianoforte. The sound is in&tantaneous; the will of the virtuoso encounters neither resistance nor surprise; his hand is in direct contact with the sonorous material, which he moulds at will, ••• Could as much be said for the pne'I..L.'Jlatic or electric systems? Certainly not.· They are like insulating bodies coming be~Jeen the organist and the sound; he strikes a wooden keyboard, an unconscious piece of mechanism, ,which seems to transmit to another more distant piece of mechanism motions of only approximate prec1s1on. He can never be sure at what precise moment after the depression of a key a pipe will speak. The virtuoso is not in communication with a soul: he has to deal with an automaton. Widor complains of sluggish pneumatic tubing, a Full Organ that 11 does not seem very full," slow-speaking reed stops, and a Stl\liss inventor's pneumatic SWell mechan ism that 11 •••was never up to time--the automaton was lazy. When he was needed , he put in an appeanance two bars late. The wind began to blow when the storm was over. 11 Barbarous seems too mild a term under the circumstances; such inventors should be 'brought before the assizes, and finish their days in prison. With the pneumatic system just attempt playing rapid successions of chords, shakes, or iterated notes, and you will soon form an opinion as to its quali ties. Perhaps the electric action is a trifle superior •••• but I would not vouch for it; electricity being impulsive, nuncanny,n and changeable by na::.ure, we must be prepared for surprises if we trust to its tender mercies. However, what I am sure of, is that nothing equals a well-made mechanical action. Widor objects to combination systems that involve the use of the hands, stating nthat an organist always has one. foot at liberty, whilst both hands are always occu- pied." ------When writing for the Organ, the composer so contrives his music that the foot may be able at the right moment to depress the combination-pedal .•• . The system <;>f this oth.er variety of barbarians keeps one foot idle, while, contrary to all reason and artistic feeling, one of the hands is obliged to quit the keyboard, in order to seize the combination-stop required, afterwards returning to the keyboard as if nothing had happened. I once saw an organist accompanying singers with a single flute-stop. In pianissimo passages his fingers barely touched the ivory; in forte passages he struck the keys as if he meant to smash them. When, towards the end of ,the piece, I took the liberty of drawing out an Open Diapason, in order to support the poor weak Flute, incapable ofbearing up against the vigorous singing of the choir, he looked at me in great astonishment, and somewhat mortified, he said: "So I have not strength enough in my finger ends?ll We must also protest not so much against those rollers which mechanically open all the stops of the Organ as against the abuse of them in the performance of the works of the great masters. ----- Now and then, unfortunately, there may be heard, introduced into the develop ment of a fugue, tone-colors which enter according to the rules of the mechani cal contrivance, without at all coinciding with the outlines of the piece. They burst forth one after the other, running the risk of bumping heads with the com poser's ideas, a Piccolo suddenly making its appE1.rance in the middle of the Subject, a Cornet towards the end of the Answer, a Trumpet somewhere in the Stretto. Is not. a fugue in reality a simple quartet? In what cracked brain could the idea crop' up of little by little bedizening a fugue with instrumental spangles and bangles, till in the end it would seern to be masquerading about in the guize of a Symphonic Piece, accompanied by a Fife and Drum Band? fThe Orgagl is a stupendous mass, a monument of granite, the most powerful means on earth of expressing what is great, unchangeable, eternal. T.HE: BOS'IDN ORGAN CLUB NEWSLETTER

Vol. 7, No. 5, Whole No .. 66 May 1971 The next Club meeting will be at the First Parish Unitarian-Universalist Church, Billerica, Mass., Sunday, ~1ay 23, at 4 oTCIOCk. The opening recital on tfie "new 11 organ will be that always-sti:Ccessful combination of the work of Donald R. M. Pater son and the Andover Organ Company. ~~. Paterson, a B.O.C. member and organist at Cornell University, will play t,he following program: Diferencias sabre el canto llano del Caballero Antonio de Cabez6n Capriccio sopra La, Sol, Fa, Mi, Re, Ut Girolamo Frescobaldi Parti ta on the Chorale "Christus, der ist me in Leben" Johann Pachelbel Passacaglia, in D :Minor Dietrich Buxtehude Voluntary in G Major, Op. 5, No .. 3 John Stanley Prelude and Fugue in C Major Vincent Lil.beck Andante tranquillo (Sonata in A Major, Op. 65, No.3) Felix Mendelssohn Two Chorale Preludes from Opus 122: Johannes Brahms 11 0 wie selig seid ihr doch, ihr Frommenrr llEs ist ein' Ros' entsprungen" Two Chorale Preludes: J. S. Bach 11 Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott" (S. 651) f1Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ev~Tigkeit 11 (S. 669) Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor (S. 537) J. s. Bach The Billerica congregation dedicated its new church edifice earlier this year. The building is almost a replica of the structure which burned December 26, 1967. The former building was a frame 1797 meeting house remodeled in the Greek Revival fashion in 1844, witl:i minor subsequent alterations. The first organ, according to the notes of the late John B. Goodwin of LOWell, was E. & G. G. Hook's Opus 2, a 11 1-10" built for\an unknown purchaser in Burlington, Vermont, in 1829. s. s. Hamill of East Cambridge, Mass., apparently installed a 2-13 of his own make in the low rear gallery in 1886, but the slightly altered instrument had been built in 1869. In 1957 it was rebuilt and enlarged to a 2-17 by the Andover Organ Company of Methuen, Mass. A few portions of the building and fragments of the Hamill-Andover organ sur vived the fire and are incorporated into the present building and organ. The organ to be played by Mr. Paterson, the third second-hand organ in the church, was built for the First Methodist Church of Holyoke, Mass., by Emmons Howard of Westfield, Mass., c ~ 1888, and obtained through The Organ Clearing House. The rebuilding and tonal alteration was done under the direction of Robert J. Reich of the Andover Organ Company, who is also the organist of the church, and was completed a few weeks ago. Howard's 2-17 has been increased to a 2-23 of considerable versatility, with old and new pipes from sixteen different sources! With the exception of a slight changing of the cherry case front, and appropriate changes in the stop labels and toe and rack boards, the HO'V'!ard woodwork remains intact. The Club is cordially invited to attend the recital and examine the organ. A complete description of what F .. R. Webber would have called na thoroughbred of mongrel antecedents" will appear in the June Newsletter. We congratulate the church for the possession of such a handsome organ, the result of the efforts of ]lJ:r. Lauf man, Mr. Reich, and employees of the Andover Organ Company, who have accomplished a worthy result with barely sufficient insurance money. Both the building and the organ stand today because of many persons who are not members of the parish.

The Newsletter is published monthly by The Boston Organ Club, 33 BO'V'Tdoin Street, Boston, ~Jassachusetts, 02114. Editor: E. A. Boadway, 335 Court Street, Keene, New Hampshire, 03431. Program Chairman: ~/fi.ss Barbara J. Owen, 46A Curtis Street, Pigeon Cove, Massachusetts, 01966; telephone 546-2946. Treasurer: Alan M. Laufman, Mount.ain.Road; Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, 12520. Meetings are usually held on the last Sunday afternoon of each month; membership: $5 .oo per year. May 1971 Pag~ 2 MIXTURES - :Mr. J~ M. Spearman of Jackson, Miss .. , has informed us of his recent tracker organ discoveries in the southern states: Searcy, Ark. Trinity Episcopal Henry Pilcher & Sons 1882 2-12 Convent, La. St. ~1ichael's R. C. Henry Erben 1857 1-7 Edgard, La. St. John the Baptist R.C. Hinners 1921 2-8 Maplewood, La. Trinity Lutheran Pilcher Bros... l-6 New Orleans, La. Felicity St. United Metho. Hook & Hastings #1366 1887 2-10 New Orleans, La. St. Teresa of Avila R.C. Jardine &. Son 2-15 New Orleans, La. Second United Methodist Hinners 1907 2-7 Lexington, }rTiss. First Baptist M. P. ][l:lller #2112 1916 2-8 Lexington, Miss. First United Methodist Henry Pilcher's Sons 1914 2-7 Yazoo City, ]~iss. Trinity Episcopal Henry Pilcher's Sons 2-10 The Andover Organ Company is rebuilding and enlarging the 2-9 George s. Hutchings organ in the Presbyterian Church, Bedford, N.H. The instrument is Opus 14.8, 1885, and when completed the 2-11 will include a new 8' Rohrfl~te and ]tixture III in the ·Great and a new 4' SpitzflBte in the SWell; the old Great. Sr Dolcissimo is being con verted to a 2 1 Principal in the Swell and the Tenor C 8t Oboe will receive a bass octave of second-hand pipes. Eugene Kelley has renovated and enlarged the 1-7 1864 Wm. H. Davis organ in St. Luke 1 s Episcopal Church, Trenton, N.J!., badly damaged by vandals. The Pedal division has been expanded and the organ nm¥ has nine ranks. Ed Boadway presented an hour's program on "Old Organs and their Music" for the Claremont, N.H., Historical Society on April 29. Good newspaper publicity resulted in several adpitions to his scrapbooks, brought in by interested townspeople. On Hay 2 he played the dedicatory service- recital on the 1-5 1882 Estey reed organ in the chapel of the Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center, Greenfield, N.H., assisted by Richard Boutwell and David Pratt, tenors, singing Dvorak, Purcell and J. Varley Roberts. The more-than-capacity crowd might have been drawn by the abundant refresh ments before and after the program, rather than by the uniqueness of a reed organ concert these days! Esther B. Arestyrs book, The Best Behavior, says that it is not correct to keep u •.. a church congregation waiting in order to display one's virtuoso talents at the organ." Well, your editor has no virtuoso talents and neYer wants to be blamed for holding things up, so he stops on the dot of 11 o 1 clock. Such a practice often results in a five-minute wait for the minister and organist to arrive -- in silence. M. V. Lomax of Stony Brook, J...I., N.Y., has ·1trestored" a one-manual English organ, said to have been built in 1772. It has been in the Caroline Church, Setauket, L.I., since 1845, and was described in art illustrated article in Newsday, April 24, 1971. Mr. Lomax found several hundred pieces of buckshot in ·the woodworkl Late last month Alan Laufman and Leo Howard dismantled the 1-6 1885 Hook & Hastings organ, Opus 1280, in the former Baptist Church, Hopkinton, N.H. Under the auspices of the Orgah Clearing House, the organ will be set up without alteratiops in Christ Lutheran Church, Woodstock, N.. Y. The instrument was still in excellent con dition when moved and has a very pleasing quasi-Gothic case. Mr. Laufman has pur chased the 1-3 1869 organ of unknown make in the Chapel' of the Thomas l~ore School, Harrisville, N.H., which he installed several years .ago. The school, once the home of 11r. Laufman and your editor, is being closed because of the current recession. A few of us do somewhat wickedly rejoice inwardly at such news items as this one, referring to an aged Hammond in a New Hampshire church last month: The main power transformer of the organ at the ••• Congregational Church failed last night, causing smoke and concern to the practicing"adult choir. After attempts to determine the source of the smoke were unsuccessful, the ••. Volunteer Fire Department was called to the scene. Department members and choir members were relieved to locate the source, as it was feared that wiring might set off a fire in the old church. Attempts are being made to repair the-organ in time for Sunday services. M:ay 1971 Page 3 George Warren Reed, organ-builder, was born in West Boylston, Hass., July 28, 1851, and died at his home in the same town on April 25, 1915. His father was Reuben Gaylord Reed, born in West Sterling, Hass., in 1830. The elder Reed erected a small home in West Boylston in 1852, a house that later grew to a two-family ~Nelling with two storie·s and seventeen rooms. His 40' by 28' shop nearby was equipped with water power and Mr. Reed was well-known as a manufacturer of small and fancy wooden arti cles such as cabinets, what-nots, reed organ cases, and sporting goods such as snow shoes and tennis rackets. George w. Reed continued the business well into the 1890 1 s (after becoming an organ-builder) and his account books mention the production of desks, picture frames, book cases and occasional "sets of drawers" as well as work at house and church carpentry. Re11ben Reed apparently built several pipe organs, the first of which is said to have been placed in the Worcester Jail in 1858. A few years ago a small one-manual of his manufacture was in the collection at the Princeton Auto Museum, now dispersed. He is known to have done some rebuilding in the 1880ts and surely he trained his son, but he evidently did not live long after George w. Reed opened his shop in 1890. The account books list small sums in the Credit columns under "Organ" in 1890 and 1891, but the first instrument was probably the one-manual built in 1892 at a cost of $83.5 for llJoel Walker'' and placed in the Baptist Church of West Boylston. The deserted stone building still stands next to the Wachusett Reservoir and the 1901 building (which no longer houses the organ) was closed this year. In 1892, George llf. Reed built a two-manual organ for St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church in West Boylston. The oldest known Reed is the 2-15 of 1893 in the First Congregational Church, Upton, Hass. In 1901 the old house and shop were demolished and the land covered by the reser voir. New buildings were erected on Worcester street in West Boylston and the firm employed from two to·four men constantly until George w. Reed's death. His brother Charles was an employee who died in 1918, and Herbert A. HoLnes was with the firm for many years from its establishment. Mr. Reed's last contract was signed on March 22, 1915, for a 2-13 $2250 tubular-pneumatic organ for St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Monson, Mass., built by his son Earle Warren Reed, born in West Boylston on July 27, 1890. The younger Reed, who still lives in the town, was a student of applied electricity at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., and returned home to con tinue for many years with the nameplate ttGeo. W. Reed & Son. 11 He never built a tracker organ after his father's death and was principally a rebuilder. The last Reed organ was a four-manual built in 1966 for the First Church of Christ, New Lon don, Conn. George W. Reed built most of each instrument, though he purchased small parts and all of his metal pipes from Pierce of Reading, ~~ss •. The smaller wood pipes came from another supplier. The firm never represented another organ-builder, and Reed's account books (which contain some unusual spelling) indicate that he did some maintenance in central Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. Several of the older Reed organs are quite pleasing but nearly all have exceptionally thick chest tables very prone to severe cracking. The tubular-pneumatic instruments have not fared well. Fortunately, most of Mr. Reed's organs had tracker action. In 1900 ~~. Reed issued a 24-page catalogue of Church and Chapel Organs, evidently his only such publication and containing 14 one, two and wee-manual stoplists priced from $800 to $5,500, plus photographs of three unidentified two-manual organs. A four-page brochure probably issued in 1914 indicates that he was building both tracker and tubular-pneumatic actions and tuned, repaired and remodeled old organs. This publication lists 11 ••• churches in which some of my organs are placed, n and of the 67 instruments mentioned, 5 are llrebuilt.n The account books indicate minor alterations to organs not listed and the opus list on the next page is based on the c .1914 brochure, which does not list the o.cgans in geographical or chronological order. In addition to an incomplete set of contracts, family and newspaper accounts mention three organs not on the printed list: "early" Reed organs are said to have been in St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Webster, ]1ass., and the First Baptist ~~ay 1971 PCj,ge 4 Church, Palmer, Mass. A Reed organ in the Church of the Unity, VTorcester, Mass., is said to have been rebuilt as a tr~ee-manual for St. Stephen's Church, Grafton Square, Worcester. In September, 1903, }'!r. Reed received $500 for "One Pipe Organ Rochdale Catholic Church," very likely a second-hand instrwnent. Most of 11r. Reed's organs were two-manual instr~~ents of medi~~ size and he did not build any with three manuals. To the c.l914 opus list your editor has added columns giving the date, cost, size and type of action when given in extant contracts. A few tracker organs had tubular-pneumatic Pedal divisions. GEORGE W. REED, West Boylston, Mass., 1892-1915 Connecticut Hartford St • Ann's French Roman Ca. tholic 1903 z$1300 2-13 tr. Hartford SS. Cyril & Methodius Polish Catholic 1906 $1750 2-15 tr. Jewett City Baptist 1898 $865 2-10 tr. Norvdch St. Andrew's Episcopal 1910 $1125 2-9 Norwich town St. Patrick's Roman Catholic, Ch~pel 1900 $9.SC 2-9 tr. Putnam Roman Catholic 1907 $1450 2-13 tr. Putnam st. Philip Is l:Iission Church 1908 $1000 2-8 tu. South Meriden Roman Catholic 1912 $1000 2-7 tr. Massachusetts Adams St. Thomas' Roman Catholic 1907 $2485 2-20 Athol Roman Catholic 19os ~ness 2- Baldwinville Congregational 1898 $1500 2-14 tr. Berlin Congregational rebuilt· Boylston Congregational 1896 $1050 2- tr. Chat'lton City Methodist Episcopal 1905 $1085 2-10 tr. Clinton First Baptist 1894 $1950 2-22 tr. Clinton Roman Catholic 1- tr. Clinton Congregational 1899 $2325 2-28 tr. Clinton Episcopal 2-l Duns table Congregational 1913 $1295 2-9 tr. Fall River Catholic 2- Fisherville Catholic l89L. $1700 2-14 tr. Franklin Methodist Episcopal 1905 $1575 2-12 tr. Gardner French Roman Catholic 1900 $1000 2- Gardner Sacred Heart Roman Catholic 1893 $1150 2-13 tr. Greenfield Roman Catholic 1903 $1900 2-18 tr. Hatfield Roman Catholic 1910 $1250 2-9 Housatonic Roman Catholic 1911 $1500 2-11 tu. Lenox St. Ann t s Roman catholic 2- }.ITerrimac Baptist 1897 $975 2- tr. Millbury French Roman Catholic 1893 $1000 2-13 tr. Nantucket St. Hary 1 s Roman Catholic 1911 $1575 2-10 tu. North Attleboro Hasonic Lodge 2- North Oxford St. 1\nn 1s Roman Catholic 1906 $1150 2-9 tr. Oakdale Methodist Episcopal 1894 $850 1- tr. Palmer Second Baptist 1909 $2000 2- tr. Pittsfield St. Charles' Roman Catholic 1901 $$2000 2-18 tr. Shrewsbury Congregational 1905 $1770 2-16 tr.&tu. Southbridge French Roman Catholic 1901 $1020 2- Springfield Holy Family Roman Catholic 1910 $2600 2-19 tr. Sterling Baptist $3 75 rebui1 t Thorndike St. Mary's Roman Catholic 1913 $13 00 2-10 Turners Falls st. Ann's French Roman Catholic 1895 $2000 2-18 tr. Upton First Congregational 1893 $1725 2-14 tr. Upton Roman Catholic 1897 $1475 2- tr. Westboro St. Luke 1s Roman Catholic 1900 $2000 2-18 May 1971 Page 5 West Boylston Baptist 1892 $835 1- tr. West Boylston Congregational 1903 $1218 2- tr. West Boylston St. Anthony's Roman catholic 1892 $1250 2- tr. West Springfield First Baptist (some old pipes) 1911 $1550 2- tr.&tu. Williamstown Roman Catholic 1906 rebuilt Winchendon Baptist 1897 $1100 2-11 tr. Winchendon Congregational rebuilt Worcester Adams Square Baptist 1901 $16h5 2-13 tr. Adams Square Congregational; originally in studio of ClJ.as. S. Pratt, Day Bldg., Worcester; moved in 1900 for $625. 1899 $1200 2-11 tr. Worcest.er Church of the Ascension 1914 $2100 2-15 tu. Worcester ~Nedish Lutheran Emanuel Church 1899 $1100 2- tr. Worcester Lake View Congregational 1895 $750\ 1- tr. Worcester Laurel Street Methodist Episcopal 1904 $1600 2-13 Worcester St. Thomas' Episcopal 2- Worcester South Baptist 1897 $1075 2- tr. Worcester Tatnuck Congregational 2- New Hampshire East Jaffrey Congregational 1895 2-10 tr. Lancaster Congregational 1898 $1540 2-14 tr. New Jersey Long Branch Baptist 1906 $350 rebuilt ---New York Hornell Baptist 1905 $2100 2- Rhode Island Providence Polish Catholic 2- Vermont West Rutland St. Bridget 1s Roman Catholic 1910 $1725 2-13 tr.

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, HINSDAlE, NEVV H.AJ11PSHIRE. E. & G.. G. Hook, Boston, Mass., Opus 93, 1849. GREAT: smmLL: (enclosed, from Co) Couplers: Op. Diapason Br 59 Dou. St. Diapason 16 1 44 1 1 Cou. Gt. Or. & Dulciana (C 0 ) 8 42 Op. Diapason 8 44 1 Sw., Unison Melodia (C 0 ) 8t 42 -l~Viol Di Gamba 8 44 1 St. Diapason Treble (C 0 ) 8t 42 St. Diapason 8 44 Cou. Gt. Or & St. Diapason Bass 8 1 17 Principal 41 44 Sw. at 11:9... Principal 4 I 59 Night Horn 4 ' 1.~4 Coupler Pedals 1 1 Flute (C 0 ) 4 42 Twelfth 2 2/3 44 & Gt. Or. Twelfth 2 2/3 I 59 Fifteenth 2r 44 Fifteenth 2 1 59 Trumpet 8 1 44 Coupler Pedals Tierce 13/5 1 59 Hautboy 8t 44 & sw. Bass Sesquialtra II 118 Tremulant Trumpet (C ) 8 1 0 42 SWELL BASS: (unenclosed) Trombone 8t 17 Two combination St. Diapason &t. Bass 8' 17 pedals for Great. Cremona (C ) 8 1 0 42 Dulciana sw. Bass 8' 17 PEDAL: Principal 'Sw. Bass 4 1 17 ?~Bellows Signal Dou. Op. Diapason Pedals 16t 25 *denotes original stop label missing Manual compass: GGG-f3, 59 notes; Pedal compass: ecc-e, 25 notes May 1971 Page 6 The'Hinsdale organ, a splendid but unplayable relic, was built for the First Congregational Church, Springfield, }~ass., and is listed as a '12-34." It stood in the rear gallery of the old frame church and the organ recess is st:i:ll plainly visible. The congregation purchased a three-manual Steere & Turner tracker, Opus 159, in 1881, and the large chamber at the front of the room is now filled with the work of AEolian~-Skinner. The Vermont Phoenix of Brattleboro mentioned the arrival of the Hook in several issues:=------August 5) 1881: The Congregational society have bought a large, nice organ from a church in Springfield, Mass., and it will be set up as soon as a place can be built for it in the rear of the pulpit. Its size is 14 x 11~ feet, and 16 feet high. Their old organ, which would answer well for a smaller church, is for sale cheap. · The enlargement of the plain frame building, now on an ugly street in a decaying mill town, began late in August and the addition was plastered late in September. On October 28, the Phoenix stated that . Workmen are setting up the new organ in the Congregational church, and it will be ready for use in a few days, when it is proposed to have a grand organ cone ert, with an organist from Springfield, Mass • \ November 11, 18.81: The Congregational 70ciety have got their new organ set up and tuned, and will have an organ concert\Nov. 16th in the evening. A Springfield organist will officiate on that occasion •. Prof. Alexander of Brattleboro will have charge of the singing& The organ is one of. the best in Cheshire county. A good organist and tiptop singers, we expect, will make the concert a rare treat. Friday, November 18, 1881: The organ concert at the Congregational church Wednesday evening was a great success, both financially and otherwise. Prof. J. G. Wilson of Springfield, Mass., rendered six or eight selections on the organ in splendid style. The double quartette was under the direction of Prof. H. W. Alexander of Brattle boro. The solos rendered by Misses Amidon and Ferren and also the double quartette were excellent. Miss Nutting assisted at the piano and organ, and Ji'fr. J. G. Beaman on the violin. The house was well filled, and the exercises highly appreciated by those present. The Hook organ was in use until about 1950, when an abominable one-manual.electric gadget was purchased. The old organ has suffered the usual effects of time, poor maintenance, too much heat, and footsteps in the Great upperwork during the needless installation of lights to display the beauty of a common tin ceiling above the organl The organ is the largest 11 intact11 two-manual Hook built before 1852, but a few miles away is the elegant and .unaltered 2-13 Hook, Opus 48, 1842, in the First Parish Church, Northfield, ~Tass.. Also second-hand from a Springfield church, the North field instrument is greatly appreciated and quite playable. The Hinsdale organ has a free-standing pine case painted white, but the delicate pipe shades and decorations above the cornices, made of wood and plaster, have been destroyed in recent years. The paneled sides of the case have duplicates of the handsome pilasters and capitals on the front. The three flats of gilded Open Diapa son basses arranged 5/7/5 (CC-E 0 ) appear somewhat squatty because the Springfield gallery is not one of great height. The console is a very early example of ~he !!projecting" style, covered by six hinged and paneled "wrap-around" doors and a two fold lid at the top. The flat jambs and some other woodwork are of walnut, and the music desk of mahogany covers two shelves for music •. The flat ros~?wood knobs are attached to square shanks and are lettered in script; the manual naturals have plain wood fronts; the rectangular dated silver nameplate is between the manuals; the. two large wooden combination pedals (attached to the bass end of the sliders) appear to be original and operate (1) all Great fluework on, and (2) all fluework of 4' pitch and higher off. The Pedal compass is unusual for 1849 and the narrow keys are quite May 1971 Page 7 comfortably spaced. The original hitch-down Swell pedal at the far right has been replaced by a crude ''balanced" pedal, but in addition is another Swell pedal that matches the combination pedals. It can be operated by the right foot, for which a metal heel rest is provided, and the device apparently could be used if the standard Swell pedal was not hitched open. The whole apparatus is some·what useless, and was probably installed for an organist who liked to 11 pump 11 the shades and did not mind the obstruction above the higher Pedal keys. The Pedal couplers are rather odd in their compass: CCC-FFio/1 couple in the bass octave of the manuals; at GGG the coup lers commence operating the lowest 18 manual keys through C0 • Thus, a Pedal coupler of 25 notes couples nothing above Tenor Cl The bellows handle was on the right side and operated two feeders under the large reservoir. At each side of the Great chest is a staircase-shaped offset chest for the lowest pipes of the Open Diapason, with regulators in the chest for each note. The Great chest has a large winker under the pallet box and most of the action is rollered. The Swell chest is above and somewhat behind the Great, and the pipes are arranged in -·~- formation. The box is of double thicl\ness with a 3 11 sp~ce between the inner and outer panels. There are no passage boards for the Swell box, which is fitted with inner and outer sets of six horizontal shades. The SWell Bass is on three slider chests behind the Great passage board, and the pipes are in ~forma tion. The Pedal pipes are unmitered and 18 stand on a long chest at the rear in '·.,_.....-formation, with the trebles offset inside the case. The Pedal chest contains. four bungboards and all of the 16' pipes have regulators in the feet. The organ has metal roller arms; the Swell horizontal trackers pass through the Great horizontal trackers; the Swell rollerboard is beind the Swell Bass pipework; the Swell wind trunk has a winker; and most of the interior woodwork is painted with "brick dust and sour milk red. 11 The only mitered pipes are three low Trombone notes, that appro priately-named bass of the Trumpet. The Swell p:lpe-work is quite intact out there is considerable damage in the Great. When played fifteen years ago, /the organ had very pleasing reed stops and a rich and "silvery11 chorus. The Great Open Diapason has 5 open wood basses with inverted mouths of walnut; the remainder of rank above the 17 zinc case pipes is of common metal -- there is no spotted metal in the organ; the Dulciana has 5 zinc basses; the Melodia is of open wood with glued walnut caps; the Stopped Diapason is entirely of wood with similar caps; the Principal has several zinc basses; the Flute stands next to the reeds and is a chimneyed rank with large ears, slightly arched mouths, and 5 open trebles; the Twelfth has 6 zinc basses; the Sesquialtra is 19-22 through B0 and 12-1.5 from C1; the Trombone has zj_nc resonators with common metal tops on 12 basses and the remainder of the rank has zinc resonators; the Cremona has small cylindrical resonators. All of the reed stops are without flue trebles and the wedges are of brass. The usual Hook practice of the 11 C side at the treble end of the chests" is here, and 10 Great notes are transferred to what most builders called the C# side. The Swell Double Stopped Diapason is of wood, ·with glued walnut caps and long stopper handles; the Open Diapason has a few zinc basses; the "ViolH is a soft Dulci ana; the Stopped Diapason is a metal chimney flute from c1 ; the Night Horn is of wide scale and without unusual ears or cut-up; the two .reed stops have boots of common metal but the resonators are entirely of zinc. The 8t Swell Bass ranks are of stopped wood and the 4' Principal Svv. Bass has 12 zinc basses.

MIXTURES - Fred Gillis writes that a few years ago he visited a Woodberry & Harris nstudent's Organ" (page 8, Newsletter, March 1971). in the former Methodist Church, Abington, Mass. The Methodists merged with the Congregationalists -- does anybody know if the organ exists? In a 1954 letter to John V. V. Elsworth, the late F .. R. Webber wrote: Today you don't hear much peal ringing. ][any churches were destroyed, and in other cases peals have become silent for some reason. The ··same is true in America. Years ago every church had at least one bell. Today Sunday May 1971 Page 8 morning is a silent, glum affair, with hardly a~y bells other than lousy, Schulmerichs, with some dumb woman very slowly and laboriously picking out the treble of "Softly and tenderly_. 11 II Teddn 1 t wut un use tu be," a~ the Cornish say, "leastwise not down yirr mongst the like o I we • 11 Twenty-five members of the Boston Organ Club are sustaining members of the Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Inc., this season. An admission fee of $2.00 is asked of non members attending ther=ec"i tals on Wednesday evenings at 8:30 during the summer. In add:ition to the schedule below, David Craighead will play a recital honoring the twenty-fifth a~niversary of the incorporation, October 20 at 8:30 p.m. June 9 Clarence Watters July 28 ' John Kuzma June 16 Carolyn Skelton August 4 Jack Russell June 23 Charles Krigbaum August 11 McNeil Robinson June 30 Marion Ruhl August 18 Karen Laycock Leonard July 7 George Lamphere August 25 Donald Olson July 14 Donald R. M. Paterson September 1 Donald Dame July 21 Mary Vivian September , 8 Carroll Hassman ' September 15 Henry Lowe Jack Horse continues the search for old tracker organs in western New York. He has found a 2-12 J. W. Steere & Sons instrument{ in the stone building of the United Presbyterian Church, Caledonia:. The second-hand organ is perhaps Opus 319, built in 18 91 for the Frank Street Methodist Church, Rochester, N.Y. The Organ Historical Society will convene irt Baltimore, Md., June 23-25; for- a brochure, address: ~~r. T. S. Eader, 8392.Merryman St., Ellicott City, Md., 21043. On May 3, Thomas lfurray presented a. recital on the 3-47 1910 Murray Harris organ (with a Reuter console) in the Second Church of Christ, Scientist, West Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, California. The building has. a concrete dome sheathed in copper with a diameter of nearly seventy feet, and is one of the'cityrs official "Cultural His torical Monuments.n ' / Shortly after Easter Sunday, the minister of the Unitarian-Universalist Church in Haverhill, Mass., received a telephone call from a person asking that he be identi fied only as "a former doubting Thomas. u He said that he had been one of the , opponents to placing the new organ (a second-hand tracker Hook & Hastings) in the rear gallery, but after listening to the Easter anthems, he realized that the rear gallery proponents were correct! The organ was placed in position more than five years ago. We appreciate th~ enthusiasm of the convert, hut how often has he been to church? The British band named Emerson, Lake & Palmer, made its first Junerican appearance in New York a few weeks ago. The New York Times reviewer headlined his report: DROPPING OF ORGAN MARKS ROCK SHOW ana saJ.d in part:- There must be some relationship between audiences who go to stock car races to see crashes and ones who go to the Fillmore East to watch somebody drop an organ •••• the group 1s whole sound is built around Mr. F:Jilerson's flashy but too busy keyboard work.. • Mr. Emerson plays too many notes with too 1it tle \idea of what to do with them .•• he has two organs, a piano and a Moog, all of which are played so loud any attempt at melody is completely lost. Mr. Emerson appeared ••• in a metallic suit; played both organs at once standing spread-eagled; jumped up and down on top of one of them; used a cattle-prodder type of gadget attached to the Moog ],.ike a machine gun, sweeping the audience; and finally received a round of applause for lifting up one organ and dropping it. The audience loved all .this. My first reaction was disbelief followed by amusement; then disbelief again and finally headache, and flight into the Fill more office where, incidentally, Emerson,·Lake & Palmerts agents stayed for almost the entire show. Add to our growing list of American places with organ-builders' names: Johnson, Vt.; Rowland, N.C.; Adams, N.D.; Roosevelt, N.J.; Howard, Kan.; Stuart, Iowa; Hale, Mo.; Abbott, Ark.; Jackson, Miss.; and Hofmann, N.C. THE BOS 'IDN ORGAN CUJB NE'i'JSLF, T1ER

Vol. 7, No. 6, Whole No. 67 June 1971 William Conner has arranged the JUly 25 Club meeting in the Exeter,' New Hampshire area. We are to visit four nineteenth=century organs and end the afternOon with- supper in Exeter, to be arranged by those members present. The schedule is: 3:30 Community Church, Newfields, N.H.; l-6 c.l875 Joel Butler organ, described on page 8 of this Newsletter. 4:15 United Methodist Church, Exeter, N.H.; 2-13 1854 E. & G. G.. Hook organ, Opus 172. 4:45 Masonic Hall, Exeter, N.H.; 2-7 1897 Hook & Hastings Co. organ, Opus 1744. 5:30 Residence of A.. Graham Down, ,Epping, N.H.; 2-21 c .1881 Alexander Mills organ, to be demonstrated by the owner. Club members are invited to visit the pleasant and historic countryside. To reach the Newfields church, exit from Interstate 95 at the Hampton, N.H. toll station and follow the signs for ]1anchester until you are on the Exeter - Hampton Expressway, which becomes Route 101 west. Follow this highway about ten miles until you reach Route 85 north, and after three miles one finds •the church in the center of the vil lage. Those who arrive late should be able to locate the Exeter buildings with ease, but allow time to find the Down homestead. It is on Blake Road, off old Route 101 on West Epping. If you have time for a lengthier excursion, consult a road map and avoid the main highways t

Your editor's announcement that he will henceforth avoid discussion of controver sial organ matters in the Newsletter met with some dismay, for it seems that the revered editors of the past, Dwight, Thayer, Truette and Buhrman did speak their minds. However, the 11Mixturesn column appears to be well-received because of the combination of information and editorial comment. Therefore, this belated issue of the Newsletter contains more than four pages of such miscellany! Readers should remember that the Club has no ''officialn policy on anything, and the editor is re sponsible for published opinions.

]lJIXTURES - Donald R. M. Paterson's superb recital at the First Parish Church in Billerica on ]1ay 23 was a memorable occasion. A host of Club members swelled a somewhat small group from the church and community. The appearance of the organ, which will some day be improved, is not one of beauty, but the soun~ is stunningL Your editor's paper on William Nutting, the 19th century Vermont builder, once announced for publication in the Newsletter by this date, is delayed by the delight fully annoying discovery of new material almost monthly. The work will be mimeo graphed for the Central Vermont Convention of the Organ Historical Society in June 1972 • Robert c. Newton is chairman of the\ committee, and if possible, all should plan for a three-day Vermont vacation next year. Headquarters will be at Woodstock, where Dr. James Bratton will play a Thayer program on the composer's own organ.

The Newsletter is published monthly by The Boston Organ Club, 33 Bowdoin Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02114. Editor: E. A. Boadway, 335 Court Street, Keene, New Hampshire, 03431. Program Chairman: Hiss Barbara J. Owen, 46A Curtis Street, Pigeon Cove, Massachusetts, 01966; telephone 546-2946. ,Treasurer: Alan ]1. Laufman, Storm King School, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, 12520. ]~etings are usually held on the last Sunday afternoon of each month, except June and December. Membership: $5.00 per year. June 1971 Page 2 A 2-21 c .1881 tracker organ by Alexander Hills of New York City has been set up in a room built for the instrument at the home of A· Graham Dovm, Epping, N.H. Formerly in the Elmendorf Reformed Church in the Harlem section of New York City, the organ was dismantled by the Hartman-Beaty Organ Company and erected by Robert K. Hale. In spite of J!>Oor weather, Mr. Down played an n opening11 recital for 165 persons on May 16, including works by Raison, Clera.mbault, Buxtehude, J. S. Bach, Haydn, Messiaen a.nd Rheinberger. The final line on page 3 of the Hay 1971 Newsletter states that a George Reed organ is said to have been in St. Joseph's R.C. Church, Webster, Mass. The contract for that organ has been found, and the 2-14 tubular-pneumatic instrument built in 1915 should be added to the opus list. The Reed organ in the Episcopal Church, Clin- ton, Mass., was pro1:;lably1 a 2-15. Add to the list of ple1.ces with American organ-builders' names: Good:dch, ~lfich.; Warren, Hich.; Ferris, Texas; and to date, the best of the lot, Alexander Mills, N.C. A recent advertisement in the Washington Post read: "ORGAN - Spinet pipe. Beaut. Shiny. Walnut finish. 11 -- 1 1 The Andover Organ Company has completed the instailation of reed stops at 16 , 8 , and 4 1 pitch on empty Great toeboards in the Methuen Memorial Music Hall organ· The organ has, at last, unenclosed manual reeds; those previously in the Great are said to have be en removed by Ernest Skinner when he owned the hall. Club members in the B.oston area should not overlook the weekly broadcasts of music prepared by the Boston Chapter of the A.G.O., and presented over Station WCRB, 1330 AM and 102.5 FJ)J, Saturdays at 5:30 p.m. Several club members may be heard on the programs, most of which are new tapes: July 17, 24, 31 Lorraine Snowden, Martha Folts and Barbara Qwen at the First Unitarian Church, Jamaica Plain, Mass. (Hook organ). August 7, 14 George Bozeman, Jr., at the Unitarian Congregational Church, Grafton, Mass. (Erben - Noack organ). . · August 21, 28 Terry Decima at the First Parish Church, Weston, Mass. (Hook & Hastings organ). September 4 Homer Whitford at the Episcopal Theological Seminary, Cam: bridge, }iass. (Holtkamp organ). September 11, 18 Christopher King at the Methuen Memorial Music Hall. September 25, & Rosamond Brenner, Yuko Hayashi and Mary Crowley Vivian at October 2, 9 the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Mass., with Mr. Dirk Flentrop speaking (Flentrop organ). October 16, 23 Brian Jones at VITheaton College, Norton, Mass. (Casavant organ). October 30 The Bradford Junior College Choir at the Methuen Memorial Music Hall. The splendid·four-manual organ in the Cincinnati Music Hall has been completely destroyed by order of the l~usic Hall Association so that the stage might gain more room for operatic productions. Despite the pleas of competent organ builders and historians, the pipework was dispersed and broken up. The organ was E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings' greatest work, Opus 869, 1877, later rebuilt by Austin. A description of the organ as originally built is in the Newsletter for November & December 1970. The June 1971 issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine contains an interesting interview with the university organist, Charles Krigbaum, entitled "The Organ Is Alive And Well. n In response to the question "But if people are turning away from religion .and the church, what will happen to the organ?'' Mr. Krigbaum says: You say people have turned away from religion, and actually I 1m not even sure I agree with that.. But I thinK: that the people who are turning away from the church are not turning away from the music. The music continues to make its appeal to those who are sympathetic and sensitive to it. The vi brations still touch them in very much the same spiritual way. People don't go to church, but they go to organ recitals, and I think that even going to an organ recitql, if it's the right kind of music and played well, is a religious experience. June 1971 Page 3 The c .1890 2-10 Cole 8.- Woodberry organ in the Universalist Church, Everett, Mass., tonally altered a few years ago by c. B. Fisk, has been moved to the home of its new owner, Edward Swainson, 59 Gay Street, Newton, Mass. The Organ Clearing House has arranged for a fine l-6 E. &. G. G. Hook & Hastings, Opus 676, 1876, to be moved from the Hasonic Hall, South Berwick, Maine, to the chapel of Concord Academy, Goncord, Jiass. The instrument was purchased for :!~300, has a handsome black walnut case, and will not be altered. The OCH also arranged for the relocation of two other organs recently: a 2-7 Hook & Hastings, Opus 1239, 1884, is in its third home, Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Chatham, N.J.,· with a new case and tonal revisions by Guy Henderson of New York City; and a 2-7 Geo. H. Ryder, Opus 44, c.l876, has been moved from a closed church in Hope, R.I. to the Rhode Island State University at Kingston. James Boeringer of Selinsgrove, Pa., is installing in his home a 1-4 17th century organ (with 19th century alterations) that was perhaps built by the famous "Father" Smith. The instrument is surely one of North America's oldest residence organst On June 6, Ed RoacrNay gave a recital honoring the 150th anniversary .of the church building of the First Baptist Church, Newport, N.H. The 2-9 1897 Hook & Hastings drew a large audienc.e from surrounding counties and the choir of the church assisted in the program. Tenor Richard Boutwell performed works by Dvoi-ak, Purcell and Men delssohn. For those who collect hymn parodies, Tom Murray sends the following, taken from a recent publication of the Royal School of Church Music: Sit down, 0 men of GodL His kingdom He will bring Exactlywhen it pleases Him; You cannot do a thing. The handsome old Universalist Church in Alstead, N.H., has been sold to the town and the interior was stripped by ,an antique dealer. Ed Boadway salvaged parts of the long-unplayable organ, a l-8 probably built in 1844 by John D. Nutter of Nashua, N.H. Every pipe in the organ was of wood, including the TWelfth and Fifteenth! In the past few months, the following organs have been destroyed: a 1-8 c.1900 Gee. Kilgen & Son in the Wicks factory, Highland, Ill.; a 2-14 1896 Odell, Opus 336, in the Odell factory, Yonkers, N.Y.; a 2-8 1891 Felgemaker, Opus 526, in the Valley ~iethodist Church, Conneautville, Pa.; a one-manual c .1920 _Hinners in the Hungarian Reformed Church, Perth Amboy, N.J.; a 2-10 1909 Henry Pilcher & Sons in the First Christian Church, Madison, Ind.; a 2-ll 1901 M. P. HBller, Opus 380, in Trinity Lutheran Church, Mount Joy, Pa.; a 2-10 c.l875 Giles Beach in St. Patrick's R.C. Church, st. Johnsville, N.Y.; and a gas station now stands on the site of Immaculate Conception R .C. Church, Newport, Ky., which housed a splendid 2-22 c .1897 Grimm & Sons rebuild of a Koehnken & Grimm. In addition to tracker organs replaced by electronic gadgets, the following losses have come to the editor's attention: Fire has destroyed the former Congregational Church in Millington Green, Conn., which contained a one-manual c .1850 Elmore Smith organ. The console has been removed from the 2-19 1889 J. F. N. Tallman, Opus 14, in St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Hiddletown, N.Y. The Great pipework has been removed and disperse.d from the 2-29 c.l890 Carl Barckhoff Church Organ Co. instrument in St. Joseph's R.C. Church, Lancaster, Pa. A 2-16 c.l885 Carl Barckhoff has been "rebuilt" in St. John's Episcopal Church, Worthington, Ohio. A 2-12 1913 Hinners in the First Methodist Church, Mcl1innville, Tenn., has also been electrified. But, there is often good news of old tracker organs "discovered11 : Holy Trinity R.C. Church, Wallingford, conn., has a 2-18 c .1895 Cole & Woodberry; the United Methodist Church of YiToodbury, Conn., owns but does not use a l-8 c.l890 Enmons Howard; St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Woodworth, Ill., has a 2-17 19'70 Roderer rebuild of a 2-12 1892 J. G. Pfeffer; St. Paul's Episcopal Church, LaPorte, Ind., has Steer & Jurner Opus 45, a 2-15 .of 1872; the Assembly Hall at St. ~Jaryrs Convent, South Bend, Ind., has a 2-17 c.l872 Louis van Dinter; First Presbyterian Church, New Albany, Ind., has Odell's Opus 356, an 1898 2-21; St. Francis of Rome R.C. Church, Louisville, KY·, has a 2-22 c .1890 Louis van Dinter; St. Philip Neri R.C., Louisville, Ky., has a two manual August Prante; St. Maurice R.C., Napoleon, Ripley County, Ind., has a 1-4 . June 1971 Page 4 c.l875 Joseph Lorenz; Galilee Baptist Church, Trenton, N.J., has a 2-13 c.l908 John Brown; the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin ]!fary R.C. Ch~ch, Buffalo, N.Y., has a two manual 1863 Odell; Baird Hall of the State University of New York, Buffalo, N.Y., has a c.l900 John Sole~ rebuilt as a 2-Jl.J. by Schlicker in 1959; the Reformed Church, Hyde Park, N.Y., has Odell's Opus 253, an 1888 two-manual; St. Paul 1 s Lutheran Church, Kingston, N.Y., has a second-hand and unused 2-14 c.l900 1·T. P. ]1,[3ller; St. John's Episcopal Church, Compass, Pa., has an unused and altered 1-5 c.l850 Henry Knauff. Despite VTilliam Conner's correction to the Casavant tracker list on page 3 of the Newsletter for April 1971, the builders assure us that the organ is not and never was in Ames, IowG~.. In Iowa City since 1963, it was recently refurbished at the Casa- vant shop. · The status of several old tracker organs changed recently: the 2-12 c .1857 Giles Beach in the Kingsborough Presbyterian Church, Gloversville, N.Y., !;las been super seded by a new electric-action instrument, but the old organ remains in rthe gallery. The 2-101876 Steer & Turner, Opus 108, has been removed from St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Troy, N.Y., to storage by the new owner, William Carragan of Troy. Anal tered 1-3 c .1870 Henry Knauff organ has been purchased by the Louisiana Society for the Arts, Lafayette, La. A 2-8 1900 Hinners & Albertson, formerly in the German Methodist Church, Troy, N.Y., is being set up in the home of John Hinners, Kent, Conn.; Mr. Hinners is being assisted by his father, Capt. Robert Hinners, son of the builder • A 2-9 c .1905 James Cole in the Armenian Congregational Ch1.lrch, Methuen, ]Tass., has been sold to rra couple in the area.'' A 2-9, 1898 l1 ~ethuen Organ Company has been sold to Arnold .Kelley of Salem, i\T .H. A 2-7 1George Kilgen in the Lutheran Church, Lake Preston, S.D., has been sold to the State University of South Dakota. Art of the Organ is a new English-language quarterly magazine for those persons witn-a serlous lnterest in the organ. One of the three editors is George Bozeman, Jr •, of Andover, Mass. A one~ year subscription is $8.00; brochures may be obtained by addressing: Art of the Organ, Box 878, Albany, Texas, 76430. We wish the new journal success! A team consisting of Alan Laufman, Chris capers and several volunteers have put in storage the excellent 1-9 1877 W. B. D. Simmons organ in the former Univeralist Church, South Acton, Hass. The building has deteriorated since becoming a recrea tion center, and the organ, despite being carefully "boarded up, 11 was damaged by vandals· The organ is described in the Newsletter for October, 1967, and George Bozeman, Jr., played the final (if not the first) recital on H for t}fe Club meeting in August, 1967. --· The Buffalo Courie;r of Saturday, September 7, 1901, indicates on page one that President William McKinley was assassinated while the large four-manual tubular pneumatic Emmons Howard organ was sounding Bach in the Temple of Music: Two hundred people had not passed the President when the tragedy which was to startle the world turned the joyous scene into one of indescribable ex citement, assault and pandemonium. Organist Gomph had reached the highest notes in one of Bach 1 s masterpieces on the great pipe organ, and as he stopped at the. height to let the strains reverberate through. the auditorium the two shots rang out. We hope that the score permitted the pause, which the assassin perhaps did not expect because he may have wanted the music to cover the gunfire. The piece is identified in a paragraph on page two: Organist W. J. Gomph started on the sonata in F, by Bach; low at first and swelling gradually to more majestic proportions, until the whole auditorium was filled with the melodious tones of the big pipe organ •.•• the organist brought from his powerful instrument its most roaring notes, drowning even the scuffle of feet. · A. Graham Down played the rededicatory recital on a rebuilt one-manual 1864 Wm. H. Davis organ in St. Luk~ 's E:piscopal Church, Trenton, N.J., on June 13 • The organ came to St. Luke's in 1917, and was vandalized last year. Restored and enlarged by E~gene Kelley and many friends, the organ is now a much more versatile instrument of nlne ranks. It is believed to be the oldest organ in greater Trenton and the oldest in use in the diocese. · June 1971 Page 5 Harcel Dupre, the world-famous organist, composer and improviser, died in the Paris suburb of M:eudon on May 31 at the age of 85. The fourth St. Dunstan ts College Conference on Sacred Music will be held at St. Stephen's Church, 114 George St., Providence, R.I., from Jl''onday, August 30th at 9 a.m. through Friday, September 3, at 12 noon. Faculty and performers will be Gerre Hancock, McNeil Robinson, JUlen Lam10m, Dorothea Waddell, the ~iastersingers of Lex ington, the Trinity Church Choir of Boston, Alexander Peloquin, Barbara Owen, Nancy Plummer Faxon and George Faxon. The fee for the entire week is $10.00, and housing as available at Brown University at ~J;S per night. Information may be obtained from Hollis E. Grant at the address above. At 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 18, John Ferris will play the dedicatory recital on a two-manual 1886 Emmons Howard organ in the new edifice of the United Church of Christ, Richmond, Mass. The organ was obtained through the Organ Clearing House from Grace Episcopal Church, Trumbull, Conn., and erected by the Andover Organ Company. The church which burned in January 1969 housed a second-hand and altered Steere & Turner, Opus 274, 1889, and parts of the congregation's first organ, a one-manual Steere & Turner, Opus 180, 1883. Mr. Howard's grand-daughter, Mrs. Richard Peale of West Hartford, Conn., has provided your editor with memorabilia regarding the organ builder, but his business records have been lost or destroyed. The Andover Organ Company has completed some renovation, revoicing and SWell tonal changes in the two-m~nual 1883 Hutchings, Plaisted & Co., organ in the United Church, Bellows Falls, Vt.; is renovating and making tonal changes in the two manual 1885 Geo. s. Hutchings organ in the Presbyterian Church, Bedford, N.H.; is to renovate, alter and completely change all of the manual pipework in the two-manual c.1905 Jesse Woodberry & co. organ in the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour, 'Middle boro, ~~ass.; is partially renovating and extending two Great stops in the t¥vo manual 1866 W. A. Johnson in Grace Episcopal Church, Oxford, Mass.; is continuing the improvement of the two-manual c .19.05 :Hutchings-Votey organ in st. Paul's Episco pal Church, Nantucket, Mass., where a new metal 8r stopped Diapason and Mixture rv have been installed in the Great; are improving and tonally altering the two-manual 1900 Hook & Hastings in the United Methodist Church, Old Orchard Beach, Maine; and are to partially renovate and install one new stop in the two-manual c.l900 Jesse Woodberry & Co. organ in the United Church, Sangerville, Haine. This poem appeared in the Pianist & Organist dated September, 1897; the author is unknown, but the last line probably indicates that the writer was an organ builder: A young lady sings in the choir vVhose hair is the color of fair But her cparm is unique She has such a fair chique It is really a joy to be nhoir. Vfuenever she looks down the aisle She gives me a beautiful smaisle And of all of her beaux I am certain.she sheaux She likes me the best all the whaisle. Last Sunday she wore a new sacque Low cut at the front and the bacque And a lovely bouquet Worn in such a cute wuet As only fair girls have the kpacque. Some day, ere she grows too antique In marriage her hand I shall sique If she's not a coquette Vfuich Itd greatly regruette She shall share my six dollars a wique. The list of L. C. Harrison organs published in the Newsletter for April 1971 apparently covers the period up to February 8, 1894, for on that date, the last June 1971 Page 6 organ on the list, a 2-20 with tubular-pneumatic action, was opened in a recital by Wenham SmitP. in the First Presbyterian Church, Newton, N.J. Club member Elizabeth Kampf (daughter of the tracker organ builder, F. J. N. Tallman) also sent your editor a copy of the opening recital program for the 2-20 Harrison organ in Christ Episcopal Church, Newton, N.J., installed in October, 1889. Both instrumen,ts are now gone • Raymond Whalon of Newport, R.I., who renovated the 2-12 1876 E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings, Opus 822, in the, First Parish Church, Groton, Mass., last year, is revoicing and improving the 2-14 1866 E. & G. G. Hook organ in the Unitarian Chprch, Kingston, Mass. The organ is Opus 384, later "botched" by Hook & Hastings, considerably 11 mucked11 by a local ''butcher, u and later improved and enlarged with a full-co:rnpass Pedal stop on electric action by the Andover Organ Company. Mr. Whalon 1 s work on the manual stops has been done in stages since 1969,

l!Te will publiSh occasionally organ material from The Springfield Daily Republican, surely the best paper in western Massachusetts during the 19th century, and in many respects a truly great newspaper. Your editor finds the almost-complete file ~n the spacious, cool_, and well-lighted basement of .the Pocomtuck Valley Memorial Association in Deerfield, Mass. a pleasure to peruse, and the enthusiasm of the librarian, Mr • D. R. Proper is an asset, for he is also a member of the Boston Organ Club. The Repub lican was evidently very fastidious about the publishing of stoplists; a great numper of them .;tppeared in the local news columns for forty years before 1900. Here is a sample from page 8 of the issue for Saturday, January 9, 1869, referring to Johnson's Opus 274, 1868, a 11 2-33 11 that is no more, though the elegant Gothic building stands at 2309 :Main Street, Springfield, as the Greek Orthodox Memorial Church of st. George: THE HEMORIAL ORGAN. There was an informal, but none the less entertaining exhibition, yesterday afternoon, of the organ just erected in the Memorial church by William A. Johnson of ·westfield. A few musical people who were present by invitation, spent an hour or two very pleasantly in hearing what the organ could say for its~lf under the fingers of E. S. Hoadly of this city and W. H. Johnson, son and 11 right hand mann of the builder. The former confined himself mostly to extemporizations, but the latter played the brilliant Triumphal march and one or two other compositions of Dudley Buck, the renowned Hartford organist, who will officiate at the public nopeningrr of the instrument, soon to be given. As to the organ, there was yesterday but one verdict--that of unqualified ap proval and delight. The introduction of such a noble instrument .in Spring field really marks a new era in our church music. It is incomparably finer than any other organ in the city, and has the advantage over them all in em-: bodying numberless and important improvements in the art of organ-building which were unknown when the others were erected. The progress which has been made within a few years in the minutiae of this art, which go so far towards making up the completeness and perfection of the whole, is wonderful. For instance; it is only a short. time comparatively, that organ builders have been able to imitate successfully the tone of stringed instruments; but the Memor ial organ has a stop, the gamba, which does this astonishingly well. The clarinet stop instantly suggests the instrument of that name, and the flute, bassoon and other stops are equally happy imitations. Indeed it is a crowning glory of this organ that each of i t.s stops has an unmistakable individuality, so that, wl1ether heard alone, or in skillful combinations, they fascinate every list~ner. The full organ effect--the grand bombardment, as the French call it--is extremely grand, and the effect of the full swell organ is greater , than that of many complete instruments. In fine, the organ is a splendid one, and the builder and the ]1emorial church have alike reason to be proud of it. Its cost ·was $4000. The whole number of registers is 32 and the Whole number of pipes 1519. Besides the mechanical movements mentioned below, there are three separate June 1971 Page 7 pedal movements, one of which, by a neat device, couple$ the pedals to the great organ, or uncouples them, ·while the second brings on the full organ, and the third takes it nearly all off. Here is the specification of the instrument:- lWhich your editor has put into Newsletter forma~ GREAT: SWELL: PEDAL: Double Open Diapason 16t 58 Bourdon 161 46 Double Open Diapason 161 27 Open Diapason 8• 58 Bourdon Bass l6t 12 Bourdon 161 27 Viol di Gamba 8• 58 Open Diapason 8t 58 Violoncello 8t 27 Clarabella 8t 46 Keraulophon 8t 58 Stopped Diapason Bass 8t 12 Stopped Diapason Bt 46 MECHANICAL ~fOVEl\''EN'IS: Octave 4' 58 St. Diapason Bass 8' 12 SWell to Great Flau to Traverso 4' 58 Octave 4t 58 Great to Pedal Twelfth 2 2/Jt 58 Piccolo 21 58 Swell to Pedal Fifteenth 21 58 Cornet III 174 Bellows Signal Mixture IV 232 Oboe 8' 46 Pedal Check Trumpet 8• 58 Bassoon Bass 8t 12 Tremolo (French pattern) Clarinet 8• 46

?} ..J} -i~ Mrs. Richard S. Peale has presented to the. Club library the four-volume Lehrbuch der Orgelbaukunst by J. G, T3pfer, published at Weimar in 1855 and the most important nineteenth-century German work on organ-building. The set belonged to Mrs. Peale •s grandfather, Emmons Howard (1845-1931),. The following programme from Mr. Howard's files describes an organ still in use in Maine; the recitalist was the man in whose memory the huge Austin was given to the City Hall in Portland:

INAUGURAL CONCERT at the CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, South Paris, September 12th, 1890, by PR.OF. HERHAN KO TZSCHJI«AR, assisted by Mr:·s. Agnes B. Penfold, N'r. George W. Horne, Nr:iss ~1innie A· Plummer, And the Congregational Choir.

SPECIFICATION OF ORGAN in Congregational Church, South Paris, Me. Built by Emmons Howard, Westfield, Hass. TVlO MANUALS AND A PEDAL. Great Organ. Couplers. 1. 8 ft. Open Diapason, • • . . l'retal, 58 Pipes. 20. Swell to Great. 2. 8 ft. Dulciana, . . • • . . II 58 II 21. SWell to Pedal. 3. 8ft. Melodia, .:, ...... Wood, 58 II 22. Great to Pedal. 4. 4 ft. Flute D'Amour, Wood and Metal, 58 II 5. 4 ft. Octave, . . . Metal, 58 II Mechanical Accessories. 6~ 2 2-3 ft. Twelfth, . . • . . 11 58 II 23 • Swell Tremolo. 7- 2 ft. Fifteenth, . . . • . . It 58 ll 24. Bellows Signal. Swell Organ. 25. Wind Indicator. 8. 8 ft. Open Diapason; • . He tal, 58 Pipes. Pedal Movements • 9. 16ft. Bourdon Bass, . • • . Wood, 12 II 26. Great Organ Forte • 10. 16 ft. Bourdon Treble, . . • 46 It 27. Great Organ Piano • 11. 8 ft. Salicional, . • . . . Metal," 58 II 28. Balanced Swell Pedal • June 1971 Page 8 12. 8 ft. Dolce, . . . . . He tal, 58 Pipes. [ Summary. 13. 8 ft .. Stopped Diapason, It Food, 58 Great Organ, Seven Stops, 406 Pipes. ~. ft. Flute Harmpnique, Jretal, II 14. 58 Swell Organ, Eleven Stops, 522 11 15. 4 ft. Violina, . ll 58 !1 . Pedal Organ, One Stop, 27 II 16. 2 /ft. Flageolet, . . II 58 II . Tbtal number of Pipes, 955. 17. 8 ft. Oboe, l- II II 18. 8 ft. Bassoon,_. . . • 58 Total number of Speaking Stops, 19 Couplers, • • • • . . • . . . . • 3 Pedal Organ. Mechanical Accessories, . 3 19. 16 ft. Bourdon, ..••.Wood, 27 Pipes. Pedal I1-fovements, • . • • • • • . 3 Total, 28

PROGRAJillME. l Prelude, Kotzschrnar. 2 Recit. "Behold a Virgin Shall Conceive," Aria. 11 0 Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion, 11 Handel. ~l[iss Plunrrner. 3 Largo, • Beethoven. I 4 Song. 11 There is a Green Hill Far Away, 11 Gounod. 1/fr'. Horne. 5 (a) Pastoral Symphony from Messiah, Handel. (b) Of fert oire , Batiste. 6 Song. Selected Mrs. Penfold. 7 Gavotte, Godard. 8 Anthem. "Sing Alleluiah Forth .. 11 Dudley Buck. Quar-vette. 9 Postlude, Kotzschmar.

COI!JMUNITY CI-IDRCH, NEViTFIEI~DS, NEW HAMPSHIRr~. Joel Butler, Boston, Jrass., c.l875. lVlA.NUAL: PEDAL: Open Diap. Treble 8r 37 Sub Bass 161 27 Tremulant - knob now the Open Diap. Bass :s, 2~ Coupler. Ped. to Gr. switch, and a later pedal Dolce Treble 8r 37 operates the tremulant. Dolce Bass 8.1 2..J. Stop9 Diap. Treble 81 3"' Stop9 Diap. Bass Br 2J. Principal Treble 4t 37 Principal Bass 4' 24 Fifteenth 21 6: The small and pleasant Victorian frame church houses another "organ,'' but the Butler has been preserved in good playing condition. It is chambered at the right of the pulpit platform, and the case front displays a flat of 13 decorated Open Dia pason basses. The projecting console has no supporting brackets; the round-shanked oblique knobs are lettered in script; the horizontal SWell shades are operated by a hitch-down pedal at the far right, and with 'the exception of the 16 1 stop and the 13 basses of the Open Diapason, all of the pipework is enclosed. The manual stops divide at Hiddle c, and one might wish that the 2' rank was also "split." The case has no side paneling, and the bellows handle is at the left side within the chamber • We know little about Mr. Butler, and in all of New Fngland .there exist just five or six organs of his make. THE BOSIDN ORGAN CLUB tl'EWSLE T'IER

Vol. 7, No. 7, 1Jifuole ITo. 68 July & August 1971 ~------~~--~----~- This "combined issue" of the Newsletter is the result of your editor's busy sum mer and lack of time to produce ~vo issue:S. He was chairman of the Northern New England Regional Convention of The American Guild of Organists, held in Keene, N.H., August 1.5-17, which was successful because it was planned like many a meeting of The Boston Organ Club 1 Of our membership, John Ogasapian, Carrol Hassman, Raymond Ad: erman, Robert Newton, Richard Boutwell) Donald Paterson and Barbara Owen were per formers, and 1.50 persons attended the convention. The 1971 membership list is a part of this issue. Plese inform the editor of any changes or corrections and note that there are several new addresses.

MIXTURES - John Van Varick Elsworth, long a member of the Club and one of America's first 11 tracker organ hunters,H died suddenly at his home in Watertown, N.Y., on July 16 at the age of 6.5. 1/fr. Elsworth was an engineer who retired a few months before his death, and a prominent organ consultant and Episcopalian. His lengthy series of ar ticles on Johnson organs in ~{assachusetts appeared in The American Organist for more than a decade and were the first articles of the type in print in-this country. His enthusiasm, knowledge, companionship and delightful letters will be greatly missed by his many friends, and our sympathy is extended to his wife, Lois Hunt Elsworth. Frederick NacArthur will play a recital at the church of the Faith Community Parish, 10 East Street, Providence, R.I., at 7:30p.m., Sunday, September 26. The organ is a superb 2-22 E. & G. 0. Hook, Opus 341, 1864, moved from the Brown Street Church and altered in 1876. It is currently for sale through The Organ Clearing House. Barbara Owen spent two weeks on the west coast last April, giving six recitals and lectures in Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Los Angeles and Berkeley. One recital was given on April 23 in the former Calvary Presbyterian Church in Portland, Oregon. The organ is a two-manual 1883 Hook & Hastings, Opus 1141, now maintained by The Old Church Society, an amazingly energetic group that has access to a printer with plenty of Victorian type. Hiss Owen has indeed spread knowledge of our old New Eng land organ--builders fror1 coast to coast t The 2-2.5 1871 George N. Andrews organ in the Presbyterian Church, Clyde, N.Y., has been moved to the form~r ~Tethodist building, for the congregations have merged. Despite the protests of the consultant, David Craighead, and the rebuilder, Bryant G. Parsons, the action was electrified. Again, the knm~rledge of experts is opposed by ignorant church authorities. A mixture of good and mediocre music was played by the United States Army Strings at the White House wedding of Tricia Nixon last June. Snatches of Broadway musicals were heard among Bach and Handel items, and one wonders if the President or the over burdened American taxpayer paid the salaries of the men from the Army that day. John Ferris played the dedicatory recital on the 1971 Andover rebuild of the 1886 Emmons Howard organ in the new building of the United Church of Christ, Richmond, Mass., on July 18. The 2-1.5 organ is in a small rear gallery and the "full house" audience sat in pews turned to face the instrument.

The Newsletter is published monthly by The Boston Organ Club, 33 Bowdoin Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02114. Editor: E. A. Boadway, 33.5 Court Street, Keene, New

Hampshire, 03431. I Program Chairman: Miss Barbara J. Q1.'1'en, 46A Curtis Street, Pigeon Cove, Massachusetts, 01966; telephone .546-2946. Treasurer: Alan M. Laufman, storm King School, Cornwall-on-Hudson, rew York, 12.520. Meetings are usually held on the last Sunday afternoon of each month, except June and December. r.,rembership: $.5.00 per year. July & August 1971 Page 2 The Andover Organ Company has contracted to make tonal changes in the SWell of the 2-15 1904 J. Vf. Steere & Son. organ in the First Congregational Church, Nantucket, Mass. An 8t Celeste of old pipes, a new 4 r Spitzfl3te, a new 2 r Principal and a 1 1/J r Larigot of old pipes will be installed among the other unchanged stops. The, Berkshire Organ Company is renovating; revoicing; and rearranging the two flute, stops in the 1-7 orgp.n in the Congregational Church, New Salem, !Ias s. The c .1860 organ, rebuilt by Geo. H. Ryder & Co. c.l897 and altered in 1925, is by an unknown builder. Robert G. Newton of Methuen, Hass., entertained a hundred guests at his first nopen house" on August 25. The former Tyler Street Primitive Hethodist Church has been elegantly rebuilt and contains several antique and new instruments, including a superb Chickeri~g grand with an Ampico player mechanism. ' John Ogasapian,' St. Anne 1 s Episcopal Church, Lowell, ]1ass., has a new two-manual harpsichord for sale at a reasonable price. The instrument is modeled after a 1760 Taskin, is seven feet long in a mahogany case, and has three registers and buff stop. The three-manual 1969 Casavant organ in Cole ]remorial Chapel, Wheaton College, Norton, Mass., will be heard in four Friday evening recitals, all free and at 8:30: Donald R. ~J. Paterson, Oct. 8; John Ferris, Oct. 29; Carlton T. Russell, Jan. 7; and Martha Folts, April 14. The Corn Hill Methodist Church, Rochester, N.Y., was destroyed by fire on August 7. The organ was a 2-19 tracker built by Jesse Woodberry & Co. of Boston around 1900. Rubin S. Frels will soon install his Opus 16, a 2-16 tracker organ in Oak Hills Presbyterian Church, San Antonio, Texas, using the chassis of a 2-11 1909 Henry Pil cher 1 s Sons organ, but with a new case and virtually all new pipework. Mr. Frels' Opus 17 is a large three-manual recently completed for Holy Family R. c. Church in .Fort Worth, to be 11 opened11 by E. Power Biggs next month. Opus 18 will be a 1-8 por tative for the Texas Boys' Choir of Fort Worth. On Ju~ 4, Barbara J. Owen gave an afternoon recital on the 1875 Hutchings, Plais ted & Co. organ in the North Parish Universalist Chill\ch, VToodstock, Vt., and on tne same day, Sallay Slade l;:rarner gave an evening recital on the one-manual 1970 A. David Moore organ in the United Church, Strafford,· vt. Both events included i terns of a patriotic nature. Brian Jones was a finalist this summer in the Organ Playing Competition of the In ternatio~al Festival at Saint Albans, England. ~~enty-three organists from Europe, the British Isles and North America participated in the eliminations, and the five finalists perf'orrued an evening concert. Mr. Jones will play a recital on the 1869 Simmons - 1964 Andover organ in the First Church of Christ, Unitarian, Lancaster, Mass., on Sunday, October 17, at Lt:OO p.m. rJ.Tr. & Hrs. Henry Karl Baker are the parents of a son, Karl Henry, born August 17, and the subject of a humorous organological birth announcement. Miss Mabel Willard of Water Village, N.H., recently completed her thirtieth year of playing the foot-pumped reed organ in the Community Church and her ninety-third birthday I A 2-7 Carl Barckhoff tracker organ in .the Reformed Church, Griggstown, N.J., has been superseded by a second..:.hand electro-pneumatic Aeolian organ, Opus 1.573. If the old organ is kept, it will soon succeed the deteriorating Aeolian. The July 25 Club meeting was a successful affair, highlighted by A. Graham Down's playing of a Uendelssohn sonata on his "new 11 residence organ. There is an error on page 8 of the June Newsletter: the Butler organ in Newfields, N.H., has 27 Pedal keys but just 13 pipes in the Sub Bass. Ernest D. May, Assistant Professor Nusic at .Amherst College, gave a recital on the two-manuall8Jl Goodrich organ in the Unitarian-Universalist Church, Nantucket, ].fass., on .August 22. The program 11 for the benefit fund for re-setting the clock and bell" in the tower, was successful and Mr. May's enthusiasm for the organ was given lengthy coverage 'in The Inquirer & Mirror. July & August 1971 Page 3

SAINT PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, VERGLNllES, VEIHifQl\TT. E. & G. G. Hook, Boston, ~~ass., Opus 306, 1862.

MANUAL: (enclosed) PI~DAL: Open Diapason 8 1 4L. Sub Bass 16 1 13 Dulciana 8 1 44 St 1d Diapason Treble 8• 44 St 1 d Diapason Bass 8t 12 Principal Treble 41 39 Pedal Coupler 1 Principal Bass 4 17 1 blank knob (now blower switch) Flageolette 2' 56 Hautboy 8' 44 Bellows Signal (now a Tremolo) This fine, small example of the best Hook work was installed early in 1862 in Grace Episcopal Church, Medford, Hass., and is listed as a 11 1-11, 11 but a twelfth knob was provided for symmetry. In 1875 the Medford parish purchased a 11 2-22 11 from E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings (Opus 803, electrified by Rostron Kershaw), and the old organ was sold to the Vergennes church. The organ stands in the corner at the right of the chancel in the 1834 Gothic brick building, which is well-preserved and has rather excellent acoustics. The plain' five-sectional Gothic case is of stained chestnut wood and displays five flats of metal dummy pipes arranged 3/3/5/3/3. The sides are paneled and the bellows handle was on the left, side. The projecting console has flat, square-shanked knobs lettered in script, a silver nameplate, wood key-fronts, 13 narrow Pedal keys cen trally located, and a hitch-dovm pedal operates seven horizontal shades. The manual compass is 56 notes; the four 8 1 ranks commence on Tenor C and the 4 ' stop divides at Tenor F; the Open Diapason is n grooved H to the St 1 d Diapason Bass. r.~any years ago, the 2 1 rank was changed to a Tenor C 4' chimney flute, made of good old pipes. In 1961, Robert K. Hale of Short Falls, N.H., renovated the organ and replaced the flute rank with a set of good second-hand 21 Fifteenth pipes. The original stop label is in use. The organ is extremely satisfying, having a rich chorus and a fiery, trumpet-like reed stop • The Open Diapason has 5 zinc basses; the Dulciana is marked "Viol; 11 the St 1d Diapason Treble is a metal chimney flute from ~Tiddle C; the Hautboy has 7 bell gamba trebles; and the excellent Sub Bass, limited only by its compass, stands at the rear with the tallest pipe on the middle of the chest. Research reveals that the church was " ••• furnished with an organ ..• 11 by Hay, 1835, and it appears on the 1845 ,list of 153 church organs by Henry Erben of New York. Late in 1872, the church " •.•was much improved by the removal of the organ and choir, formerly in the gallery over th~ entrance, to the left of the Chancel, and by color ing anew the walls •.• u By September of 1875 a. 11 ••• new organ, of fine power and great sweetness and purity of tone has been placed in the Church, and wholly paid for." In that year the organ was valued at :s1200 and insured for $800_, but by June of 1881, the· insurance had been increased to ~;;1300. Rarely does a weekly newspaper report in such detail the installation of a second hand organ, but the following informative column appeared in The Vergennes Vermonter on Friday, Harch 26, 1875, and closed with a list of all the Easter music for March 28: New Organ in St. Paul's Church. The efforts of the clergyman in charge of St. Paul 1s church, in this city, in relation to the new organ, have at last been accomplished. An instrument , was set up in the church, last week, which will compare favorably with any of its size in the State. It was built, a few years since, by Messrs. E. & G. G. Hook, of Boston, for Grace church, of Medford, Mass. The. vestry of this church, having built a new church, were cornpelled to have a jdifferent size of organ to conform to the new building, and therefore offered this one for sale. The Rev. lrr. Chapin, hearing of this, and knowing the value. of the instrument, (having at one tj_me been in charge of the parish at Medford) made July & August 1971 Page 4 strenuous efforts to purchase it. The case is of chestnut of a rich color, heavily moulded, of gothic style, twelve feet high in rear, fifteen feet to the cross in front, seven and a half feet face, and six feet ~eep, and of very artistic design. The Messrs. Hook give it as their opinion that they could not build a better organ on the same scheme. The organ contains 330 pipes, including 17 large and handsome gilt pipes in front; it has nine stops--open diapason, stopped diapason bass, stopped diapason treble, sub .bass, dulciana, principal bass, principal treble, flageolette, and hautboy; a:lso swell, pedal coupler and bellows signal. •The pedal bass comprises a full octave; the key-board four and three-fourths octaves. For convenience the organ is blown on the front side, but it can be blown from side or rear. At Friday evening service the organ was consecrated; after which, by re quest, 1\/Jr. Bach, the gentleman who has had charge of the work, played several sacred airs, and among others the celebrated German choral, ttEin Fest Burg," on the full organ. The heavy sub-bass, joined with tll:e sweetness of the· dul ciana and flageolette and the mournful tones of the hautboy, filled the church with rich music, Had ane·w organ been built expressly for St. Paul's church, it could not have an~~ered the purpose better. Eve~y one who has had the pleasure of listening to the music expressed themselves in unbounded praise, and consider the congregation at St. Paul's exceedingly favored in having an instrument they may well be proud of, and which wi::Ll add greatly to the effect of the solemn church music. The organ used previous to this was made expressly for the church by Henry Erben, of New York, the maker of the expensive organs in Trinity church and St. John.' s chapel, in New York. It has four stops--principal, dulciana, stopped diapason bass, stopped diapason treble; five octaves on the key-board. It is an instrument of very fine tone and has been thoroughly overhauled and put in tune by an experienced artist from Boston. The case is of mahogany, about seven feet high, four and a half feet face, and nearly three feet deep. The tone is exceedingly sweet, and in the opinion of competent judges the organ will be of good service for years to come t.o any society purchasing it. It is understood that the organ is to be sold.

The following reference to an unknown ,builder has been found in the Niagara Falls

Gq.~ette for Wednesday3 Sept~mber 25, 1861: Organ Building. -- Sometime since we announced that Mr. Michael Rish was about to engage in the entirely new business -- to this place -- of organ building. We now have the pleasure of announcing that he has nearly finished a large si~ed organ which we judge to be an excellent instrument. It has six full stops (a f0ct that will be understood by organists to render it quite equal to other instruments having a greater number of stops and half stops) and pedal, and also a greatly improved bellows, the patent of which was se;.. cured in Germany by a brother of Mr. Rish. The tone is very clear and full. Several rnusicians here and from abroad have thoroughly tested the qualities of .the instrument and unite in praising it highly. It can be seen at No. 2 Frontier Nart. Church officials who are about to purchase an organ would do well to give this one an inspection. Your. editor could not find the earlier reference to Hr. Risch, whose name is very likely more correctly spelled in an advertisement which appeared in the Gazette from August 14 to the end of September.:~ 1861:

11IJSIC , ~.1USIC • Pianos, 1~elodeons, Organs, Accordeo:ns, tuned and repaired in the best pos sible manner. Orders can be left with Nr. Mayer/ (Watchmaker) Falls Street or July & August 1971 Page 5 with M:r. Risch, Main Street. Hichael Risch. Organ Builder, No. 2 Frontier ~Tart, Niagara Falls, N.Y.

MORE MATERIAL FROH SPRINGFIEJ-'D, MASSACHUSETTS - The Springfield Daily Republican for January 18, 1869, described Johnson's Opus 287:~uilt for St. Paulis Universalist Church at the corner of Chestnut and Bridge Streets. The $40,000 brick building, dedicated early in June, is now gone, and the H2-3111 organ cost $3,500. The stoplist is adapted from the erroneous copy in the Republican, which omits mention of the Pedal compass: GREAT: S11\TELL: PEDAL: Open Diapason Sr 58 Bourdon Treble 16' 46 Double Open Viola di Gamba 8t .58 Bourdon Bass 161 12 Diapason 16t Dulciana 8t 46 Open Diapason 8t .58 Violoncello 8t Melodia 8t 46 Keraulophon ("or St. Diapason Bass 8' 12 Dolcett) 8 I 46 Octave 4' .58 St. Diapason Treble 8• L16 Swell to Great Flute d 1 A.mour 4' 58 St. Diapason Bass 8t 12 Great to Pedal Twelfth 2 2/Jt .58 Violin 4' .58 Swell to Pedal Fifteenth 21 58 Flauto Traverso 4' 58 Mixture III 174 },fixture II 116 Pedal Check Trumpet 8' 58 Oboe Bt 46 Trembla.nt Clarinet 8' 46 Bassoon Bass Bt 12 Bellows Signal

On September 3, 1869, the Republican published the stoplist of Johnson's Opus 299, built for Trinity Methodist Church on Bridge Street, but temporarily placed in the city hall: OUR "GREAT ORGAN • 11

The anvils wer~ ringing in the city hall last night, and workmen were en gaged, all day, in putting up the new organ, in preparation for the great musical festival next week. The organ pipes are now going in, and will probab ly be completely arranged, ready for tuning by Saturday. The instrument is the largest of its kind in the city, and will undoubtedly prove fully equal to all demands upon it, next week, and thereafter. The following is a full descrip tion of its pipes, stops and registers:- GREA T ORGAN. l. Double open diapason, metal to G, with seven wood pipes toe c, 16 ft. metal 58 pipes. 2. Open diapason, 8 !I II 58 II 3. Salicional or gamba, 8 I! II 58 II I! " L~. Dulciana - soft and sweet, i 8 .58 II ,5. Stopped diapason base,} II wood n 6. Clarabella, 8 58 7- Octave, 4 II metal .58 !I 8. Flauto traverse, 4 II wood .58 9. Twelfth, 2 3/4 II metal 58 tl" 10. Fifteenth, 2 II II 58 ,, 11. IW[xture, 4 ranks, II 232 12. Trumpet, 8 II II 58 "II 13. Clarionette, 8 II II 46 If I July & August 1971 PB.ge 6

8'';:811 ORGAN. 14. Open diapason, 7 pipes wood, 8 ft. metal 58 pipes. 15. Keraulophon, 8 II II 58 u 1.6. Bourdon-bass, } 16 II wood 58 II 17. a treble, 18. Melodia, 8 tl 11 46 n 19. Stopped diapason-base, 1 8 IT II 58 It 20. '" n treble,J 21. Octave, 4 II metal 58 n 22. Flute (metal instead of ,Nood), 4 " II •. 58 11 23 • ~1ixture or cornet, 3 ranks, If 174 tl 24. Oboe-treble, } 8 II 58 25. Bassoon-base, " " 26. Cornopion--treble, 8 II II 46 H PEDAIE. 27. Open diapason, 16 ft. wood 27 pipes. 28. Bourddn, 16 II I! 27 tl 29. Vio;Lincello, 8 t! metal 27 tl NlECHA.NICAL REGISTERS. 30. Swell to great, Pedale check. 31. Swell to pedale, Bellows signal. 32. Great to. pedale, Tremolo.

On September 13, 1869, the Republica~reportedthat The work of taking down the organ used for the musical festival at the City hall commenced on Saturday, and the instrument will be at once erected i~ its permanent home, the Bridge street Methodist church. Although inadequate for our capacious City hall, last week's trial proved it a beautiful instrument, and when applied to the church purposes for whicl;!. it was designed, .it will doubtless be found wholly satisfactory.

On September 20, 1869, the same paper mentioned that the organ 11 ••• is now in its place, and was tested on Saturday evening, before the organ committee, by ~/fr'. Hoadly, the organist. 11 The congregation now possesses a large stone Gothic building named Trinity Methodist Church, with an E. H. Skinner organ recently rebuilt by the Berk shire Organ Company. Mr. Johnson, perhaps looking for a chance to flmake a splash," is mentioned in the Republican for December 9, 1869, but the project never came to fruition: This is not the first time we have argued how excellent and desirable it is that we should complete our city hall with an organ worthy of its ample spaces, nor do we think it is the last. It recurs just now, because our lovers of mus:Lc have a capital chance offered to show how much they value it, and how much pride they have in increasing our city's attractions, in just this thing. Mr Amos Vmiting received a letter, a few days ago, from W. A.' Johnson, the great Westfield organ builder, in which he makes the. liberal offer that, if the citizens of Springfield will put a $10,000 organ from his factory, he will take $1000 stock in it. Such an organ would be a magnificent instrument, with a capacity of sixty registers, and every modern improvement. Such an orga~ we ought to have, and we wish we dared hope the time had come, and we could see Mr Johnson's generous. offer accepted. It must come before many years. On September 16, 1873, the Republic::an gave the stoplist of another large Methodist two-manual Johnson, Opus 4o9; which is probably still in use in the Congregational Church, Thompson, Conn. The stoplist below is adapted from the Republican article: TEE ORGAN OF THE STATE STREBT METHODIST CHURCH. July & August 1971 Page 7

The organ, making by Johnson & Co. of Westfield, for the State street Metho dist church, will cost $3500, and will be finished and put in its place early in October. Its case will be of ash and black-walnut, elaborately ornamented, and the character and power of the instrument appear in the following specifications:- GREAT: SlPELL: PEDALE: ~ffiourdon 16t 58 Open Diapason St 58 *Open Diapason 16t 27 Open Diapason 8' 58 Salicional 8t 58 ~;-pourdon 16 1 27 Viola da Gamba 8t 58 *Btop 1 d Diapason St 58 Violincello 8 I 27 Dulciana 8t 58 Quintadena 8t 58 ~~Nelodia 8t 58. Fugara 4' 58 Swell to Great Octave 4' 58 Flute Harmonique 4' 58 Great to Pedale ~Wlauto Traverso 4' 58 Flautina 2t 58 Swell to Pedale Twelfth 2 2/ I 58 Cornopeon St 58 Fifteenth 2' 58 Oboe 8t 58 Blower t s Signal ].[ixture III 174 Tremulant Pedale Check Trumpet 8t 58 Clarinet Sr 46 Great Forte Great Piano ~·stops thus marked are of wood; the Sw. 8 t Open Great to Pedale reversible Diapason had wood basses; stop names are given Pedal to operate Tremulant without changes, but 11 Cornopean11 and 11Violoncello11 prob~bly appeared on the knobs. - On October 21, 1873, the Republican noted that The new organ of the State street Methodists, already described in the Re publican, is now in position behind the pulpit, and gives a fine finish to that end of the audience-room. The organ was satisfactorily tried, Saturday; Mrs J. R. Tiddy of this city is to be its player ••.• In a description of the new building in the Republican for Novembe~ 26, 1873, the organ was thought to be 11 ••• just strong enough to fill the room and does it admira bly." Two new instruments by the Springfield firm of Steere & Turner are described in the Republican. On February 3, 1885, Opus 200, built for Hope Congregational Church, rece'ived this mention: TBE NE\Tf HOPE CHUHCH ORGAN. Steere & Turner of this city have contracted to build for Hope church a two-bank organ, which will be in place by Hay l. The manuals will have a com pass of 58 notes and the pedale 27. The 23 stops are as follows: Great organ- bOlxrdon, bourdon bass, open dianason, dulciana, melodia, octave, flute d 1 amour, twelfth, fifteenth, mixture, trumpet, clarionet; swell organ-open diapason, salicional, stopped diapason, flute harmonique, violin, flautino, oboe, bas soon; pedale- open diapason, bourdon, violoncello. By a recently patented contrivance the reed stops in the great organ, the mixture, trumpet and clari onet, are controlled from the swell. The four mechanical registers are, swell organ to great, great to pedale, swell to pedale and tremulo. The pedale movements include a reversible pedale to operate the pedale coupler and a bal anced swell pedal. The scheme calls for 1249 pipes. A water motor is speci fied in the contract, but the precise style and finish of the case are not determined. The wood may be black-walnut, ash, oalc, cherry or gum wood. Steere & Turner are now building a similar organ for the Central Baptist church in Norwich, Ct., which will have a case of sweet gum wood. The qrgan in the Hope church will occupy the recess qesigned for it when the church was built, the ornamental pipes being set in the arch at the left of the pulpit platform, while the organist will sit on this platform, with his back to the preacher. July & August 1971 Page 8 Hope Church now has a newer building and a three-manual Casavant organ. Christ Episcopal Church, now the Cathedral, erected a new building in 18 76 and Steere & Turnerts Opus 205 was described in the Republican. on September 14, 1885; the church. now houses a three-manual 1955 Austin organ. The stoplist below is adapted from the Republican article: THE NE'N ORGAN IN CHRIST CHURCH. Worshipers at Christ church yesterday heard for the first time the new organ, which was set in the chancel recess last week. It was built by Steere & Turner of this city in their very best style, and both in workmanship and in tone effects it may be said to do the builders no little credit. The organ is very compactly built, yet its arrangement is a model in the ease with which every part may be reached for voicing or repairs. It is so much larger than the old organ that the .key-board and organist 1 s seat are outside the chancel arch. Very little case-work is needed, but that little is very finely finished and the key-board frame is of highly polished gum wood. The organ has three manuals of 58 notes each and a pedale of 27 notes. The solo organ is inclosed in a swell box beneath and separate from the swell organ, and is operated by an independent balanced foot-pedal. In the solo organ swell-box is placed the mixture and .trumpe~ of the great organ, comprising 290 pipes, some of which are the smallest pipes ever made by this firm. They are in the upper register of the trumpet and are smaller than a common lead-pencil. By this device of' separating the great organ, a very satisfactory crescendo ef'fect is produced with the swell pedal of the solo organ. The balance fSicj1 pedals controlling the shades of the two swell boxes are side by side and may be operated together with one foot, if' desired. All the pedal and manual couplers are reinforced with pneumatic motors and the manual couplers are double-acting by piston pneumatics. The tremulo combines with both swell and solo organ. An Amherst water motor of remarkably delicate action works the two bellows, the smaller of which is f'ed f'rorn the larger, giving the wind-chest a constant and even supp~• The organ has 2126 pipes, 33 speaking stops and 11 mechanical and pneumatic movements. The details of the organ scheme are as follows:- GREAT: (first manual) · SliTELL: (second manual) SOLO: (third mmual) .Open Diapason 16! 58 -!!-Bourdon Treble -L Geigen Principal 8t 58 Open Diapason 8 1 58 *Bourdon Bass J 161 58 Dulciana 8t -58 Viola da Gamba 8 1 58 Open Diapason 8' 58 *Melodia 8 r 58 *Doppel Flute 8 1 58 Salicional 81 58 Fugara 4' 58 Octave _4r 58 *Stop'd Diapason 8 1 58 Flute dtA.mour J-~.r 58 -l~Flauto Traverso 41 58 Violina 41 58 Piccolo 2' 58 1 ) Twelfth 2 2/3 58 Flute Harmonique 4' 58 Clarionet (C 0 8t 46 Fifteenth 2 1 58 Flautina 2 1 58 Cor Anglais 81 58 Mixture IV 232 Dolce Cornet V 290 Trumpet 8 1 58 Cornopean 8t 58 Oboe and Bassoon 8 1 58 PEDAL: il{)pen Diapason 16t 27 <~}Bourdon 161 27 ~~stops thus mar.ked are of wood; the bass of the sw. 8t Violoncello 8 1 27 Open Diapason was of wood; the Flute d 'Amour was o.f Trombone 16 1 27 stopped wood with open metal trebles~

Eighteenth century Boston papers contain a considerable amount of organ material, mostly in advertisements, and your editor will occasionally reprint such items as he discovers them. The :r,ioneer organ-builder, Josiah Leavitt, is the subject of the following extracts: · Massachusetts Oentinel, May 26, 1790: I CURIOUS MECHANISH .. Every friend to his country, to science, and the liberal arts, must f'eel the most pleasurable sensations in observing the rapid improvements which are July & August 1971 Page 9 made in the various branches of mechanick arts. -- It is with pleasure we announce that our countryman and townsman, Dr. JOSIAH LEAVITT, has lately con structed and completed an Organ under a Harpsichord; a piece of mechanism so curious was never before attempted or executed in America. Either instrument may be played upon separately, or with the greatest ease be connected together. The tones are exceedingly sweet, and when combined, afford a most rich and pleasing variety. Those Ladies and Gentlemen of taste and knovvleqge who have seen and heard it have not hesitated to express their approbation; and ]Jr. SEIBY, whose superior knowledge is too well known to be doubted, has pronounced as his opinion that it is superieur to any instrument of the kind he ever saw. It was built by desire of, and is now owned by, Mr. ABIEL S]:IITH, of this town. Dr. LEAVITT has begun another, to be put under a FortePiano, to be completed in two months. A Harpsichord alone is truly pleasing, and a FortePiano alone ex tremely agreeable; but when combined with an Organ, and touched by the fingers of the Fair, are truly rapturous and transporting. Columbian Centinel, February 8, 1792: AJilJFJUCAN ORGAN. We never feel more happy than when it is within our power to do justice to the genius and industry of our countrymen. We therefore with pleasure inform the publick of the proficiency made in the art of constructing ORGANS, by Dr. LEAVITT. One of these instruments, made by this gentleman, has lately been purchased by the Universal Religious Society in this town, and erected in their house of worship. For compass and sweetness of sound, and elegance of construc tion, it is exceeded but by few imported Organs. Columbian Centinel, December l!.t, 1793: JOSIAH LEAVITT, ORGAN-BUILDER, BOS1DN, HAVING a Church-ORGAN nearly completed (except the Case and Pipes), and whereas the price of said Organ when finished will be greater or less in pro portion to the number of pipes, and elegance of the case which shall be made for the same, he begs leave to inform any Church or Society that may wish to contract with him for the said Organ that it shall be finished, in the above respect, as may be most agreeable, provided timely application be made. He likewise informs the public that he has completed, and for sale, an elegant HOUSE-ORGAN, with a l'Tahogany case, and which might be sufficient for a small Church or Society; which should it be purchased, and found not large enough to ans-lllrer their expectation, will be received by him, at any time within the course of one year from the delivery, in part pay for one of larger size. He gratefully acknowledges the several favours he has received from the pub lic, by employing him in his line of business; and assures them that he shall still endeavour to give the utmost satisfaction to those who have occasion to employ him. Connecticut Courant, Hartford, November 5, 1792: ORGAN. The public are hereby notified that l.lfr. Josiah Leavitt, of Boston, Organ Builder, hath lately been employed to construct an ORGAN for Worthington parish, which is completed and set up in the Meeting-House. The Organ will be opened by said Leavitt on Thursday the 8th of November instant, at which time a Sermon will be preached on the occasion, and ]1usic will be performed. After the exercises there will be a collection for the benefit of said builder. The exercise will begin at one 6'c1ock P.H. Worthington, Nov. 1, 1792. Note: Leavitt was also a physician and clock-maker; he died in 1804. July & August 1971 Page 10 lHEMBERS OF THE BOSTON ORGAN CLUB, 1971: Ackerman, W. Raymond 5 Louisburg Sq., Apt. 12 Nashua, N.H. 03060 Aish, William J. 614 Hipodromo RcL 20 Santurc'e, Puerto Rico Arden, }~T .&JVfrs. William M. 81 Phillips St. Boston, Hass. 02114 Atkinson, Deborah 18 Cardine;ton St •. Pinehurst, Mass. 01866 Baird, James R. 2352 Honroe St. Herndon, Va. 22070 Baker, Henry Karl The Organ Literature Foun~ dation, 45 Norfolk Rd. Braintre,e, ~~ass. 02184 Barlow, Dr. John s. 241 Holden Wood Rd. Concord, 14ass. 01742 Barry, ·wilson 76 Norton St. Andover, Mass. 01810 Beasley, William cT. 346 Hot Springs Rd. Santa Barbara, Calif. 93103 Beaudry, Philip A. P.O. Box 123 Somerville, Mass. 02145 Becker, George Lake Rd. Columbia, Conn.· 06237 Be lash, David C. 3 W. Cedar St. Boston, Mass. 02108 Bellocchio, Matthew-Mich 11 456 E. 16th St. Brooklyn, N.Y. 11226 Bennett, Richard 33 Stow St. Concord, Uass. 017L~2 Berry, Chester P.O. Box 1912 Hartford, Conn. 06101 Blackinton, Lyle W. 236 N. Cuyamaca El Cajon, Calif. 92020 Boadway, Edgar A. 335 Court St. Keene, N.H. 03431 Boeringer, James R.D. 1, Box 360 Selinsgrove, Pa. 17870 Boutwell, Richard G. P .0. Box 143 Winchester, N.H~ 03470 Bozeman, George L. Jr. 96 Haple Ave. Andover, Hass. 01810 Bratton, James 2!. 2209 s. Cherry St. Denver, Col. 80222 Breton, Rodney 8 Cedar Rd. Norfolk, ']ffass. 02056 • Calkins, Grosvenor Jr. 207 Franklin St. Newton, Nass. 02158 Cameron, Peter T. 138 Amity St., Apt .. 4B Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201 Car1.son, Roy E. H. Old Coach Rd. Magnolia, Mass. 01930 Carr, Dale c. 19 S. Park St. Hanover, N.H. 03755 Carver, Ralph E. 246 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, Mass. 02116 Chase, Sidney 67 Decatur St. . Worcester, I'J.Y. 12197 Chatis, Despina 7 Haverhill St. Methuen, Hass. 01844 Clamp. Storey 95 Chestnut St. Randolph, ]1ass. 02368 Clark, John 82 Prospect St. Manchester, N.H. 03104 Cogswell, David Vtl". 68 South Boulevard West Springfield, Hass. 01089 Comfort, Webb T. Arnold Rd. .Amherst, Hass. 01002 Connely, George vr. C/o Hrs. G. L. Taylor, 2098 Trenholme Ave. Montreal, P .Q., Canada 262 Conner, William Box 128, Grinnell College Grinnell, Iowa 50112 ·cotton, David Ashley Astor Station, Box 154 Boston, Nrass. 02123 Craft, Carrol F. Tufts Lane Billerica, Mass. 01821 Danyew, Hary R. P.O. Box l North Chatham, N.Y. 12132 Davis, Charles L. h4 Woodland Rd. Shrewsbury, Hass. 01545 DiBona, Raymond A. 87 Liberty St. East Braintree, Nass. 02·184 Down, A. Graham P.O. Box 470 Epping', N.H. . 03042 Drake, William G. Box 486, R.R. 1, Wheatsworth Rd. Hamburg, lJ. J. 07419 Ehrich, Marion 10 Frost Lane Hadley, ~1ass. 01035 Elliott, Joseph 1-~ount Hermon School Mount Hermon, Mass. 01354 Farmer, John A. 166 Hain St. Wilmington, ~Tass. 01887 Faxon, George Trinity Church, Copley Sq. Boston, Mass. 02116 Ferguson, James P.O. Box 209 Burlington, Vt. 05401 Fife, c. Truesdell Standish Shore Duxbury, l1ass. 02332 Finch, Thomas L. Physics Departmen~, St. Lawrence University Can ton~ N.Y. 13617 Fisher, Cleveland H. 9255 Bennett Drive Hanassas, va. 22110 Fisher, Jack 16 Carver st., .Apt. 2 · Boston, Mass. 02116 Fisk, Charles B. Box 28 Gloucester, ~{ass. 01930 Flint, Edward w. P.O. Box 68 Lincoln Center, Mass. 01773 July & August 1971 Page 11 Fonteneau, Jean 7, Avenue Vion-Whitcomb 75 Paris, 16e, France Forish, George Jr. Main st. Blandford, Hass. 01008 Fuchs, Brian 2 Canary Court Huntingt9fl, L.I., N.Y. 1171+3 Gagnier, Larry 36 Lawrence St. Boston, Hass. 02116 Gallagher, Rev. David F. 900 Washington St. Wellesley, J!l[ass. 02181 Gaylor, Hadeleine 5 Prospect St. Fitchburg, ~1ass. 01420 Gillis, Frederick E. 79 Donaldson Ave., Rockingham Halifax, N.S., Canada Gillis, ~~Irs. Thomas B. Saddleridge Rd. Dover, Mass • 02030 Goodwin, John 10 Longview Dr. Chelmsford, Hass. 01824 Grant, George W. 6 North St. Lexington, MSiss. 02173 Grebb, Jack A. ll Whitcomb St. Webster, Mass. 01570 Gregg, Chandler 19 Hundreds Circle Wellesley Hills, Mass. 02181 Grey, Donald B. 34 Eighview St. Westwood, Mass. 02090 Grobe, Dalos 16931 Griggs Detroit, Hich. 48221 Hamar, Richard c. "Solhaga," Steele Rd. New Hartford, Conn. 06057 Hansen, Ivan J. 81 Phillips st., Apt. 4 Boston, }~ass. 02114 Harley, Mark W. Bolton Rd. Harvard, 1-lfass. 01451 Harriman, Helen B. 295 Hountain St. Sharon, Mass. 02067 Harris, Leonard 34 Congress st. Lawrence, Mass. 01841 Hartman-Beaty Organ Co. 15 Humphrey St. Englewood, N.J. 07631 Hassman, Carrol 111 Jersey St. Boston, r~rass. 02215 Hastj_ngs, i1.llen Chestnut Hill Athol, Mass. 01331 Hawkes, W'alter V. 120 E. Uain St. Merrimac, Mass. 01860 Hedgebeth, Richard S. 201 Tyler St~ Hethuen, Hass. 01844 Hill, Ricrrard 1681 Broad-~Nay Raynham, I,rass • 02767 Holland, Thomas F. III 47 Union Park Boston, Hass. 02118 Houseman, Hichael Brandeis University Waltham, Nass. 02154 Howard, Leo Storm King School Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y. 12520 James, Robert A. 6412 Eleventh Ave. Brooklyn, N.Y. 11219 Jameson, Edward E. P.O. Box 402 Natick, ~',ass. 01760' Jameson, Kenneth P. 33 Summer St. Saugus, Mass .. 01906 Jones, Brian Noble & Greenough School, 507 Bridge St. Dedham, Mass. 02026 Kampf, Elizabeth T. 8 Linwood Ave. Newton, N.J. 07860 Kanzler, Robert F. 2 Hawthorne Place, Apt. 5K Boston, ][ass. 02114 Kelley, Eugene A. 40 Trenton St. Lawrence, l'lass. 01840 Kelvin, Mr .&Mrs. Norbert 26 Sargent St. Needham, ]lfass. 02192' Kirkpatrick, Bryan Hamilton 1College Clinton, N.Y. 13323 Krigbaum, Charles 10 }[ansfield Rd. North Haven, Conn. 06473 Lahaise, Richard c. 78 Carroll St. West Roxbury, ],:rass. 02132 Lahaise, Robe!1t J. 81 Carroll St. West Roxbury, ~1ass. 02132 Laufman, Alan r~. Storm King School Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y. 12520 Leonard, Laurence W. 17 Winnicoash St. Laconia, N.H. 032l-t6 Lewis, Jerry W. 12 Landmark Lane Rockport, 11ass. 01966 Loehr, William 46-c Downey Drive Manchester, Conn. 06040 Long, Stephen E. 37 Pinckney St. Boston, ][ass. 02114 Loris, ~uchael A. R.F .D. 2 Barre, Vt. 05641 Lush, Hr.&J\Trs. !!Torley J. 74 Independence Rd. Concord, ].~ass. 01742 MacCormack, H. J. Y!T. Bradley's St. Huberts, N.Y. 12943 ~liacDonald, Robert S. The Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive New York, N.Y. 10027 Malmstrom, Lloyd D. 7329 Balson Ave. University City, Mo. 63130 ].1atson, Uno A. P.O. Box 57 West Newbury, Mass. 01985 McPeak, David H. 201 'r'jler St. Methuen, 1[ass. 01844 Miller, ~'Iax B. 45 Hunnewell Av~nue Newton, I1fass. 02158 Moore, A. David 8 Pasture Rd. Rockport, Mass • 01966 Moore, Raymond E. Emerson Ave. Hampstead, N.H. 038L~l Horgan, Benjamin B. Pomfret School Pomfret, Conn. 06258 July & August 1971 Page 12 Muench, Richard F. 2032 High Tmver Drive Hollywood, Calif. 90068 Muise, Joseph A. 1861 N.vr. 36th st., Oakland. Park Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 33309 Muise, Joseph A. Jr. Brandeis University Vialtham, Mass. 021.54 Murray, Thomas 1613 s. Primrose Ave. Alhambra, Calif. 91803 Myers, Allen C • East Hill Farm Chester, Vt. 0.5143 Myrvaagnes, Mr. &Mrs • R.N. Boylston 17-E, Prudential Center Boston, Mass. 02199 Newton, Robert C. 201 Tyler St. Methuen, Mass. 01844 Nye, Eugene 11T. 127.55 4th Ave., N.W. Seattle, Wash. 98177 Ochse, Orpha 7639 S. College Ave. Whittier, Calif. 90602 Ogasapian, John K. 14 Park St. Pepperell, Hass. 01463 Olson, Donald H. Box 281 Methuen, Mass. 01844 Ontko, Allan J. 13.5 Columbus Ave. Palisades Park, N.J. 07650 Outerbridge, Thad H. H. Bayview Ave. Beverly, Mass. 0191.5 Qwen, Barbara J. 46A Curtis st. "\ Pigeon Cove, ]iass. 01966 Parke, Nathan Grier III P.O. Box 134 Carlisle, Mass. 01741 _/Paterson, Donald R. l.i. 13.50 Slaterville Rd. Ithaca, N.Y. 148.50 · Perkins, Elmer Vi. Birch Rd. ' South Berwick, Me. 03908 Piercey, Gerald L. Box .513, 282.5 Lexington Rd. Louisville, KY· 40206 Powers, Charles Jr. P.O. Box 175 Tilton, N.H. 03276 Proper, David R. 51 S. Lincoln St. I~eene., N.H. 03431 Rand, Richard s. P.O. Box 1 Amesbury, Mass. 01913 Redman, Roy A· 2742 Avenue H Fort Worth, Texas 7610.5 Registein, Lois .51 Delle Ave. Boston, Mass.• 02120 Reich, Robert J. 16 Ditson Place Methuen, Mass. Ol8L~4 Ricker, Charlotte E. 34 Talmouth Ave. Haverhill, Mass. 01830 Robinson, Albert F. 413 Spruce St. Philadelphia, Pa •. 19106 Roche, F. Robert 60 Park St. Taunton, Mass. 02780 Rockwood, Donald C. SO Rockwood Rd. Norfolk, Mass. 02056 Russell, Carlton T. P.O. Box 299 Norton, f.[ass. 02766 St. George, Paul 270 Beacon St. Boston, ~~ss. 02116 Sampson, Edward J. Jr. A-2 Colonial Drive, Apt. 11 Andover, ][ass. 01810 Sargent, NG:".&Hrs. Thomas C.lO Radcliffe Rd., Apt. 6 Allston, Hass. 02134 Saunders, Jonathan 122 Cross St. Chatham, ]Tass. 02633 Sawyer, George 3.52 Buena Vista Rd. New City, N.Y. 109.56 Simmons, Kenneth F. 17 Pleasant St. Ware, Mass. 01082 Sly, Allan 3 9 Bay St. Quincy, Has s • 02171 Smith, Charles ~· 6 Edgehill Rd. Woburn, ~~ass. 01801 Smith, Rollin 11.50 41st St. Brooklyn, N.Y. 11218 Smith, Tony Choate School, Box 134 Wallingford, Conn. 06492 Smith, ilifr .&Mrs. William V. 30 Mohegan Rd. Acton, Mass. 01720 Steinmetz, c. ]~artin 6 Ayer Rd. Wellesley, Uass. 02181 Stevenson, Peter Phillips Exeter .Academy Exeter, N.H. 03833 Strauss, A. Richard 109 Glenside Rd. Ithaca, N.Y. 148.50 Suttie, James 3904 s. Grand Independence, Mo. 61.+05.5 Swainson, Edward L. .59 Gay St. Newtonville, Hass. 02160 Taylor, Donald c. 923 ArnesburyRd. Haverhill, J1ass. 018.30 Terrill, Dudley A. 5 Mountain Rd. East Concord, N.H., 03301 Thoene, Marijim 43 0 Arvin St. Bakersfield, Calif. 93308 Van Zoeren, Allan 46 E. 29th st'. New York, N.Y. 10016 Vaughan, Donald E. 202 Su.m.mer St. Portsmouth, N.H. 03801 Walsh, Martin R. 9 Belmont Circle Trenton, N.J. 08618 Warner, Sally Slade Abbot Academy, Draper .54 Andover, Mass. 01810 Wyly, James 1711 Park St. Grinnell,, Iowa .50112 Zirkle, Patricia J[. 23.5 Train St. Concord, l[ass. 01742 THE BOS'ION ORGAN CLUB NEWSLETTER

Vol. 7, No. 8, Whole No. 69 September 1971 In lieu of a Club meeting this month, members should attend a recital of their choice. Two evening events on Sunday, September 26 merit our presence: I At 7:30, Frederick MacArthur will play the excellent two-manual 1864 Hook organ in Faith Commun~ty Church, 10 East Street, Providence, R.I. A few details are in the last issue of. the Newsletter;-you may wish to buy the organ after the recitall At 8:00, Gaston and Lucienne Arel of ]1ontreal will play the inaugural recital at the dedication of the organ in St. Maryts Roman Catholic Church, Princeton Street, Jefferson, }~ass., a part of the town of Holden. The organ is an 1880 two-manual Hool( & Hastings, Opus 1010, built for the Baptist Church of Skowhegan, Maine and .for fifty years in the Methodi.st Church, North Anson, Maine. Moved last sunnner by Ed Boadway, Stephen Crandall and Dick Boutwell, the organ has received a new Pedal division and manual tonal changes by the Berkshire Organ Company. The instrument fits the room perfectly and replaced an aged electronic, though the church did have a tracker organ for many years. Dr. Paul E. Shannon, the organist, is chiefly responsible for the successful relocation of the organ. M. and Mde. Arel 1 s program is: Chaconne in E minor -Buxtehude; three Choral-Preludes from the Orgelblichlein -Bach; Prelude and Fugue in A Major -Bach; and Sopata No. 1 -Hindemith; played- by Lucienne Arel; Fantasy No. 1, K.594 -Hozart, and Fantasy No .• 2, K.608 -Mozart, both arranged for four hands; Variations on "Est-ce, Mars 11 -·SWe/elinck; Prelude and Fugue in A minor -Bach; three Choral-Preludes -Brahms; and Transports de joie (from the Ascension Suite) -:Messiaen; played by Gaston Arel.

IIUXTlJRES :- A flflash;y...tt brochure designed to raise funds for the recently-completed three manual c. B. Fisk organ in Old West Church, Boston, contains the following paragraph which the builders of the organ truthfully deny writing: · .•• Its four soaring tonal towers are sheathed in rich, glowing Honduran mahog any and house the massive tubes and keyboard. The dia9ason of this instrument is incredible. Sound swells from its mighty throats in waves of beauty. Even the most fragiJ_e note lingers in the ear with the delicacy of a hummingbird in arrested flight'. And the deep chords rise majestically--like thunder in the distant hills. · The Sunday Press of Binghamton, n .Y., has erroneously described the work of -Els YJorth Phelps, a:rlorgan-b:uildet in Guilford, N.Y. about 1819. The July 18, 1971 article tells of the remnant~ of a one-manual organ found prior to the demolition of a house and repqats the unshakable local story that Hr. Phelps carved a few willow whistles, "later completed the sufficient number of pipes to form a double chromatic scale 11 , and that his work was known th..roughout the east. Other ne11uspaper accounts inform us that 1'tr'. Phelps 1 inv~nti.eE was appropriated by others who became rich, while the hero died a pauper in Nmv York .City! The Sunday Press proves more know ledgeable than the Syracuse Post-Standard, which claimed in-1951' that Phelps inven ted the pipe organ (see the Newsletter for September, 1968).

~~- . George Bozemcin, Jr., of Andov;er, Mass., gave three recitals in Texas early last May:. St. l·~a:ty' s Roman Catholic Church-' Taylor - 2-14 A. B. Felgemaker & Co., Opus 770, c •. l902; Church of the Good Shepherd, Episcopal, Terrell - 2-9 J. W. Gratian, 1907; and First Methodist ChUtch, Canton - 2-9 Hillgreen, Lane & Co., Opus 331, 1914, moved and altEJred .:J.n 196 7 by Roy Redman. Your editor is an admirer, of Mr. Bozeman 1 s organ playing and knows that the 11 tracker gospelH waE? ably preached in Texas. Alan D. McNeely of Wate 1 rford~ Conn., has moved a 1..;.4 1916 Hinners tracker, without tonal changes, from St. Paults L.utheran Church, Terryville, Conn.,, to the Masonic Temple in Niantic, Conn. }';Tr .. HcNeely removed a\2-14 c.l885 J. VFordsworth & Co. organ from St. Paul's. Episcopal· Church, Plainfield, Conn., last April._ Club members A8 Graham J)own, :bortald Olson, Richard Hedgebeth, Ed Boadway and Dick Boutweil performed at the first annual Epping organ recital :i,n Hr. Down's new Hamp shire home on September S. TI1e heat did not help the Alexander Mills 8 1 Trumpet, but the day was made more pleasant by the excellent assistance of a harpsichordist and violinist. · " Your editor is not an enthusiast of such modern spellings as "nitett and flthru.n He therefore regrets the unintentional "plese11 which appeared ori page one of the last Newsletter. He has retired from playing the ·organ at Grace Methodist Church in Keene, N.H., after several years of labor. and expense. The minister insists upon an "informal service" and the .new Methodist hymnal unfortunately contains too many,· "officially approved It gospel songs... The singing of II Happy Birthday, Dear Jesusn during Advent is still considered by some people to be in poor taste. Our meeting on Octqber 31 will be in Concord, Mass., and include a 4 p.m. recital by Yuko Hayashi, rededicating the 1869 William Stevens organ rebuilt and moved last year by Philip A. Beaudry to the Union 'church, lilest Concord.. · Two old two-manual tracker organs are available irmnediately:: a 2-13 c .1870 George StevensTn southeas"Eer:n-New~ngla:iia-mus'f oe··-r-emoved oy October 1 and is free; a two manual 1897 Hook & Hastings in'central Massachusetts is in a building soon t.o be de molished. A 1-15 Erben with a reversed console is available free to a church and is in use in New York City. The chassis .bf a small two-man~al E. W. Lane can be bought in the Boston area. Johnson.& Son 1 s Opus 686, an 1887 2-16 rebuilt to fit an 8' height isavailable for $1500 in Michigan. Contact Alan Laufman of the Organ Clearing House for details. If he cannot b~ reached by telephone at Area 914, 534- 7170, write l Alan' La;:fman and Leo Hovvard have completed installing a 1-6 188.5 Hook & Hastings, Opus 1280, for the delighted congregation of Christ 1s E:vangelical Lutheran Church, Woodstock, . N.Y. The Hartman-Beaty' Organ Company did the finishing but the organ ha~ not been aJ,.tered. · · · Boston h

In the archives of Trinity Church~ New York, is the only lmown copy of what may be North America's oldest opus list, pP':::lishecl by HENRY ERBEN (1800-1884) in 1845. The leaflet lists 153 organs (150 of wh:Lch ·were in churches), the greater portion, but by no means all, of Mr. Erben 1 s work for twenty years. A majority of the instruments were in Episcopal churches,. and several of these early one-manual organs are in use in their original homes. The List of Churches for which Organs have been Built, by Henry Erben, Organ Builder-;-New::York. has been here-rearranged tocanserve l~ew.sietter space; ancfthe word nchurch11 removed from nearly every entry. Two buildlngs are-listed only as ttchurch11 and though some errors have been corrected, some old-fashioned spellings are retained. West Virginia now has some of Erben's Virginia territory; can any reader identify ncarthagena"? As late as the. 1840's, some Unitarian and Congregational churches were called Presbyterian -- the 1845 one-manual organ by Erben listed for such a church in Burlington, Vermont, was a Unitarian organ. Alabama Maine Huntsville Church Belfast Congregational Mobile Christ Montgomery Church ~ryland II Roman Catholic Balti..rnore Christ Erwlli tsburg St. Joseph's Seminary Connecticut Bridgeport Presbyterian Hassachuse'tts II .St. John's Taunton Roman Catholic Chatham Trinity II st. Thomas'

c Har·tf ord G:b...rist ~lgan·~· h' Nii.ddletown .christ New Britain St. Hark's Tecumseh St. Peter's Ncw Haven st. Paul's ~~ssissippj. Norwich Presbyterian Saybrook Grace Colmnbus St. Paul's Waterbury st. John's Port Gibson Presbyterian Woodville Trinity District of Colun1bia Washington City Trinity Missouri Florida St. Louis Christ Jl;ppalachicola Trinity New Jersey 1'allahassee ~Tohn' St. s Elizabethtown Presbyterian _Qeorg~~: Hoboken St. Paul's Columbus ; Trinity Hope st. Luke Is Macon Presbyterian Newark Trinity Savannah Christ New YorJ~ It St. John the Baptist tt Unitarian Albany St. Hary's !I St. Paul's Illinois -·--"'--"" Astoria, L.I.. St. George's Chicago st. James' Auburn Second Presbyterian Galena Episcopal Avon Episcopal Jacksonville Episcopal Broo~dyn, L.I. Dutch Reformed, Henry St. Kentucky It St. Ann's Louisville Roman Catholic II St.; James I II Unitarian II st .. John's Louisiana II St. Paul's R. C. Unitarian New Orleans Christ ;Buffalo" II It St. Paul's Roman Catholic Delhi st. John 1s September 1971 Page 4 New York; (cant.) Williamsburg, L.I. Roman Catholic East Chester St. Paul's Yonkers St. John 1 s Fishkill Landing St. Anne's North C.s.rolina Hempsted, L.I. St. George 1 s Elizabeth City Christ Hudson Dutch Reformed Fayetteville st. JoKn1 1 s Lyons Grace Hillsborough st. Hat thew 1s Morrisania St. Ann's Salisbury St. Luke's Newburg St. Georg'e's Washington St. Pet~r's New York City All Saints' II Annunciation Ohio 1! Ascension Cleveland /Presbyterian II Eglise du St. Esprit l1 Trinity II , Dutch Reformed, Columbus •Trinity Broome St. Granville St. Luke's 11 Dutch Reformed, Painesville St. JameS I Greene St. Dutch Reformed, Pennsylvania Marli:et st. Germantown st. Luke Is II Epiprfany Philadelphia Christ I II , German Reformed II Grace r!, Grace !I St. Mary 1 ~ II Methodist Chapel, " R.hode Is land ' Vestry St. II J\'Ioraviart Lonsdale Christ 11 North Dutch Pawtucket St. Paul's I! ·Presbyterian, Provi~ence GJ?ace Christopher St. tl· St.. Stephen's Presbyterian, Warren Baptist " Mercer St. I . ' South Carolina 11 St. Bartholomew r s - camden It St. Clement's Grace Charleston Baptist 1f I St. JameS ' It II Hebrew Synagogue St. Joseph's II tt St. Luke's St • Finbar r s II 1 II 1 St. Peter s St. U1ry s fl !I . St. Nicholas '• St. Phihpts rr St. Peter's, ------Tennessee Barclay St. Columbj_a Female Institute !1 St. Peter's, 20th St. II St. Phillip's Vermont___ , II St. Thomas' Burlington Pr esbyteria:q. ll Second German II st. Paul 1 s Reformed Highgate St. John's ll South Church, RutlCl,!ld Trinity Garden ·st. v.ergennes st. Paul 1s II South Church, Murray St. Vi::,~~

Universalist :. ,·Alexandria St1 Paul's Ogdensburg Presb:rte:rian Charlestown Presbyterian Oswego Grace Fredericksburg PresbytE;rian Peekskill Dutch: Reformed I\anahwa S,t. Mark's Rye Christ Norfolk dhrist Sacket 1 s Harbor Episcopal Petersburg Presbyterian Saugerties Trinity II St. ·Pa"Ul 1s Troy,, Presbyterian Richmond st. James' st. Paul's Williamsburg Bru·ton Parish Utica Dutch Reformed II First Presbyterian Wisconsin Watertown Trinity Green Bay Episcopal September 1971 Page 5

·Uppe::_ Canada Convent of La Herced, Havana, Cuba Brockville st. James' Church at Valencia, Columbia (Venezuela) Lower Canada Cb.ureh at Guatemala, Central America Church at Carthagena Montreal Methodist Chapel

BETHANY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, RANDOLPH, VERI\TONT. George S. Hutchings, Boston, 1\J.Tass ., Opus 344, 1894; moved in 1905 from the Christian Church, Randolph, vt. GREAT: SWELL: PEDAL Open Diapason 8r 61 Bourdon (C ) 16 1 49 Bourdon 27 0 Dolcissimo 8 1 61 Salicional 8 1 61 Flote 27 Melodia 8' 61 Stop1 Diapason 8 r 61 Octave 4' 61 Flute Harmonique 4 1 61 SWell to Great Octave Quint 2 2/3 r 61 Violina 4 1 61 Great to Pedal 1 Super Octave 2 61 Oboe (C 0 ) 8' 49 Swell to Ped

fi~m of Johnson & Son of Westfield, Hass $ and will be put in place as soon as the repairs upon the church which are progressing rapidly, have been completed. Six artists - one of whom is a lady - from Monmouth, Maine are this week fres coing the interior and no pains are being spared ••• October 26, 1893: The Christian Ch. Society has decided not to buy a pipe organ of the West field Mass. firm but will purchase an organ costing $2800 of George S. Hutch ings, an organ dealer in Boston who was here Tuesday to confer with the com mittee having this matter in charge. The new organ will be 18 ft high, 11 ft wide and 8 ft deep. It will consist of a great organ of 6 stops and 366 pipes, a swell organ of 6 stops and 354 pipes and a pedal organ of 2 stops and 54 pipes.. 3 couplers, with 4 pedal movememts - making a total of 21 stops and 771+ pipes. With such an instrument the Christian Ch. choir ought to be able to 11 make a joyful noise before the Lord. 11 January 18, 1894: The elegant new organ for the Christian Church has arrived from the Hutch ingsManufactory, Boston, and is being set up by Mr. H. P. Seaver of Spring- field, Hass ~ · The work of setting up and tuning the new pipe organ for the Christian Church is completed, and the instrument now stands ;ready, under skillfull [Siq} fingers, nto raise a mortal to the ski.es or draw an angel down." The case is of highly finished oak, corresponding with the woodwork of the church, and as the circle is prominent in all the decorations of the audience room, September 1971 Page 6 t:q.e builder, Mr. G~o .. s. Hutchings of Boston, has adopted the idea in designing the case, in the. front of which is a large semicircular oDening filled with thirteen pipes, tastefully painted in colors • • • • On either side of this open ing•are nine pipes, similarly ornamented~ and making thirty-one in view, all of which belong to 'the open diaipason, the loudest and strongest set in the organ. Across these grouus of pipes, and near the top, is an oaken bar pierced with circular openings, and the keyboards, two in number, are of the modern style, setting out from the organ and, consequently, more accessible to the organist • •That great improvement on·. the boy-power for purnping, the Ross Motor, made in Troy, has been put in by L. R. Stanley of Boston, and this contrivance, which will always be on hand when wanted, is warranted not to let the wind out of the bellows with a dismal ·squeak in the middle of a particularly fine voluntary. 1 The instrument i~ 14 feet wide. and 15 feet high, completely filling the organ loft ••• and in sweetness and volume of tone it is not easily excelled. ~\ I February 8, 1894: · An organ re.ci tal will be given at the Christian Church next Tuesday night at· 8 o 1clock •. Ge..orge s. Hutchings, who built the new organ, will send a fine musician to show up the organ and give the people a rare treat in music. Added to this will be a program consisting' of .chorus., quartette, duet, solo and saxo phone music and readings. , Only 400 people can be seated ••• The article closes with a lis.t of the organ selections to be played at the con cert, for which 25¢ admission was charged: Goinnmnion in E minor -Batiste; Cantilene Pastorale and Elevation in A Flat -Guilmant; L.argo -Handel; Allegretto -Tours; Andante , / I -L.efebure-Wely; Gavotte -Thomas; Tralm1erei and Romance~ -Scb,umann; Intermezzo -Mascag- ni; PilgrirtJ.l s Chorus -Wagner;· and" T:riurnphal T~arch -Costa. On February ·15, 1894, the Herald & News reviewed the eve.nt: " The organ recital given by E. V. Clar:ke of Boston with the magnificent new organ ••• was thoroughly enjoyed by one of the largest audiences of the season, between four and five hu"'1dred tickets being taken. The program was the same as given in the last issue of the HERALD with the addition of one or two organ se lec:tions in response to encores. The organ recital was interspersed with a duet, "Moonlight on the Rhine," by Mr. and Mrs. Hayes; song, 11 An Old Garden,.11 · by ~1rs. C. H. Tewksbury; reading by Galen Fish, IIA. Boy's Composition on Noses," a,nd ItA Hindurs Dream, 11 in response to an encore; lf'J.'ell Her I Love Her So,rr by Mrs. Hayes; song, none Sweetly Solemn Thought," by l'frs. J. B. Adams; duet, liThe CurfmiV Bell," by Mrs~ Tewksbury .and Mrs.· Ford. Both songs and. recitations were very pleasing, the song by Mrs. Adams being especially applauded. • •• The case "finish11 has ·been removed .and the front pipes are now gilded. A 1911~ "rebuild II probably. included the altera'tion of the lJ' Violina and the installation of an electric blower~ The cons.ole has oblique knobs lettered in plain capitals; labels for the Hpedal movements" above the Swell manual; and a metal Swell pedal at the far right operates a very effeqtive double. set of vert.ical shutters. The organ needs a renov.ation but it is in good condition and pleasing to play. The Swell is ab0ve the Great and the Pedal is on two chests - the Bourdon on the left side and the Flote .on the right. There are no winkers; the Great has metal rollers; eight of the case pipes are tt\)11l'l1riiesn; a set of Deagan chimes aclded in 1961 ha$ .a small keyboard belpw the Great :r.:1anual. Tonally, the organ is adequate, but typical of the period. The upperwork is too soft and the stopped flutes are too similar in quality. The Gr~at Dulciana has 12 zinc basses and the Melodia has 12 stopped basses. The Swell Salicionai has 7 cap ped zinc basses; the StopQ Diapason has 12 open metal trebles; the Flute Harmonique is of metal, harmonic for two octaves - c1 to c3 •. The Oboe has 12 flue trebles and the Bassoon has mitered basses. The Pedal Flote is of open wood w:i,. thout inverted mouthso . ' The editor here thanks Mr. L. W. Leonard, a BOC member in Laconia, N.H., who supplied the newspaper accounts of the installation of the organ, now in his "home church.H September 1971 Pag0 7 The following i terns are from old Boston newspapers. The first perhaps refers to a church in Salem and the sentiments expressed are not out of datel The second tells of a.n early Thomas Appleton organ, refers to King 1 s Gh~pel and the Handel myth, .and mentidns a service that would be a pleasure to attend even today .

.American !Pallo, April 20, 1792: Lines written, rather out of temper, on a Pannel in one of the PeNs of S---m Church.

Gould poor King David but for once To s---m Church repair, And hear his Psalms thus warbled out, Good Lord, how he would swear l But could St. Paul but just pop in, From higher scenes ,abstracted, And hear his gospel now explaln 1 d, By ---, he'd run distracted t

Col~mbian Centinel, November 22, 1817: (italicized words are here underlined) NEliJ AJ\llERICAN OHGAN. The very elegant and costly Organ, manufactured at the Franklin Musical Warehouse in Milk-street, has been ])lu·chased by the members of the Rev. Mr. Thatcher 1s society, and will be put in operation To-Morrow. It is said, by those who are capable of judging its merits, that--fJ:iis-·organ is inferior only in power to that in the Stone Chapel, and in regard to the melody of its tones it is thought to be equal. This is a high eulogium on the American Artist, as it is said that the Organ in the Chapel was selected by the great Handel, after undergoing his severest scrutiny, as one of a very superior make. In the purchase of this valuable piE?ce of workmanship, the New South Society have risen above the prejudices which have been suffered too long to cramp the e1'":forts of native genius, and evinced a disposition in the highest degree honorable to patronize and reward the enterprizing Artists of .their own country in preference to any other. We learn that the religious exercises of To-Harrow at this Church will be adapted to the occasion of the opening of this excellent instrument; That the subject of the afternoon sermon will be Sac red Husic, by the Rev. President Kirkland; that of the musical performances will be Old Hundred, Anthems, &c., from Handel, Madan, and Slade, - "Strike the Gymbals,tt accompanied by a full chorus of a select choir an.d the Organ; and that they will conclude with the Pastoral Hymn, n Nothing True but Heaven, n in which the children of the Female Orphan Asylum will take apart:--

FlliST PAR.ISH CHUHCH, UNITiffiiAN, NORTHFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS. E. & G. G. Hook, Boston, Mass., Opus 48, 1842; given in 1871 by the Church of the Unity, Springfield, Mass. GREAT: SWELL: PED.A.L: Open Diapason Open Diapason (G ) 1 1 8' h7 0 8 .35 Sub Bass 16 13 ) ) Dulciana (G0 Sr 35 Stop Diapason (G0 8t 35 ) 1 Stop Diapason Treble (G0 8' 35 Stop Diapason Bass 8 23 ) 1 Stop Diapason Bass Sr 23 Principal (G0 4 35 ) 1 Principal 4' 58 Hautboy (G 0 8 35 Flute 1 1~ 58 --- Two Great combina Twelfth 1 2 2/3 58 Gt. Or. & Ped. Couple tion pedals Fifteenth 2 ' 58 Sw. & Gt. Or. Couple 1 Cremona (G0 ) 8 35 (stop label missing) Bellows Signal Manual compass: GGG-f3, no GGO#, 58 notes. Pedal compass: GGGG-CC, no GGGG#, 17 notes; 13 pi pes from CCC, the lowest 4 keys operate pipes an octave higher. September 1971 Page 8

Though there is no nameplate, the organ is definitely a Hook, WC?.t3 'flargely the gift of the Springfield society'', and was erected in Northfield at a cost of $500. The Third Congregational Church of Sprint;field built the Church of the Unity in 1868 and purchased Hook's Opus 449, a large uNo-manual organ with an odd case designed by H. H.. Richardson. On Christmas eve in 1870, the, handsome 1833 frame building of the Northfield congregation burned, and in 1871 the prese~t frame church, designed by Boyden & Son of Worcester, was erected,at a cost of m\15,000. The organ was in the rear gallery until about 1902, when it was moved to a free-standing position in a spacious rec.ess behind the pulpit platform. So little has been changed that the organ is likely the oldest two~manual Hook extant" and perhaps the oJ.dest unaltered two-manual organ in. the nat~on. In 1871 the gilded case pipes were redecorated in the colors seen today; an electric blower, a recent duplicate of the worn.,...out 1842 Pedal keyboard, electric light fixtures a.pd a few sets of slide tuners are later additions. Because three mitered 16 1 Pedal pipes are. visible from the pews, two stand outside the case, and the rear of ·the organ is designed to hold removable panels, it is obvious that the present Sub Bass is a very early Hook addition, but it is not an original stop. The organ perhaps had an 8 1 Sub Bass going to the lowest G (10 2/3' in. length), much like the same stop in the 1847 Hook in the Federated Church, Sandwich, Mass. In the gallery locations, the largest pipes were not visible above the cas.ework. The hands~me pine case is "fake-grained" to imitate dark oak and the sides are paneled. The five flats are arranged 3/5/7/5/3 and are small in scale but considera bly enriched by plaster pipe shades and decorations·· above the cornices in 11 c1assic'1 style.. The end flats house the lowest six pipes of the Gt. 4 1 Principal and the rest of the front pipes are Open Diapasons from c~. The cornice of the taller center flat extends at the Sldes to form the top of the small Swel~ box above the Great. The bellm·,rs handle is on thE;J right side and the blower iS in a small room at the left of the chamber. The recessed console is covered' by sliding doors, the wood-fronted manual natural_ keys have ivories in perfect condition; the mahogany'music desk covers two shelves a~d the unit is removable for access to the action; the flat knobs are on square shafts and are. lettered in handsome script, arranged in a single column at each side of the manuals; a hitch-dow.n Swell pedal operates horizontal shutters; the two wooden combination pedals at the left bring on all of the Great stops and take off all but the four 8 1 flue stops, working a wooden roller at the bass end of the Great chest; the Pedal keys are quite narrow and somewhat uncomfortably situated. The unenclosed Sw. Stop Diapason Bass stands behind the Great passage board and two pipes are tubed off to the ends of the Crf:lmona toeboard; the Swell action is by long backfalls below the Great chest; the key-depth is regulated by adjustable wedges below the backfall frames; the SWell wind trunk passes in f~ont of the Great pipes and the Swell pipes a:i:-e i.n A formation. The organ is in g6od playing condition "but it does need a thorough renovation. The 11 bass notes of the Great Open Diapason are borrowed by channeling from the Stop Diapason Bass and the Open's awn pipes begin in the case at GG; the Stop Diapa son is entirely of wood with glued caps; the Flute has 16 stopped wood basses and is a metal ch:irnney flute with arched mouths and 5 open trebles; the Cremona is entirely of reeds and the narrow resonators are not belled. The Swell Stop Diapason iS a metal chitwey flute from Middle C; th~ Hautboy now has two bell gamba trebles . All of the metal pipes are of common metal and there is a minimum of sagging among the feet. The reed stops add considerably to llfull organ.n The tone of this Hook is mild, rich and "silvery'' - quite pleasing for old English music. As the player becomes accustomed to the console, the great charm of the voicing is more apparent, and even those persons who prefer more brilliant and ' 1chiffy11 organs usually leave convinced that the Northfield organ is a splendid survival that is adequate, us'eful and satisfying as a church organ and a musical antique. THE BOSTON ORGAIJ CLUB NEi17.3illTTER.

Vol. 7, No. 9, v'Vhole No. 70 October 1971

The Club meeting on October 3lwill be in Con~, Massachusetts. The itinerary for the afternoon is~ 2:45 Alcott House, Route 2-A; interesting but unplayable one-manual Henry Erben organ in historic surroundings. 3:00 Chapel, Concord Academy, ~~ain Street; 1-6 1876 E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings organ,\ Opus 6 76, recently moved from the Hasonic Hall, South Berwick, Maine. 4:00 Union Church, West Concord; recital by Yuko Hayashi on the two-manual 1869 William Stevens organ, rebuilt early this year by Philip A· Beaudry, and now serving its fourth congregati9n. It is rumored that a ne'lllr Noack organ will be dedicated at the University Lutheran Church in Cambridge during the evening, but your editor has no details.

MIXTURES - The Andover Organ Company has contracted for renovating and tonally improving the 2-30 1897 Hook & Hastings Co. organ, Opus 1797, in St. Mary's R.C. Church, Dedham, Mass. The instrument has a detached console. Jack Fisher and Kate Friskin, duo pianists, assisted by Barbara McClosky, con tralto, will perform works by I1ozart, Grieg, Brahms, Schumann and Milhaud at Conover Hall, Bradford Junior College, Bradford, Mass., at 8:15 p.m., November 2. George Bozemej.n writes regarding the last issue of the Newsletter that he gave five recitals in Texas and believes that Henry Erbents ucarthagena11 is Cartagena, Colu:m= bia,. one of the first important cities in the area. Your editor can't fool Barbara Owen~ who corrects an item on page 7: the 1817 New South organ was by William Good- rich. - ----The King's Chapel Concert Series, excellent free progr~rns on Sunday afternoons at five o 'cloc):c, are on October 24, January 16 and Jtrarch 5 for this season. Each utili zes organ, instruments and voices and the last program is to be !!Music for the Court and Chapel Royal under the Stuart Kings." Go early for a good seatl The Andover Organ Company recently rescued, at the ''eleventh hl;:>ur, 11 two two-manual tracker organs and have placed them in storage: the 1897 Hook & Hastings Co. organ in st. Louis R.C. Church, Webster, Mass., and the c.l870 George Stevens organ in United Church, Chepachet, R.I. A small two-manual Geo. s. Hutchings in Vermont and a large two-manual Hook in Boston are available immediately. Contact Alan Laufman for details on these and other organs soon to be broken up fo~ parts. The superb two-manual 1864 Hook organ in Faith Community Church, Providence, R.I., has been purchased by the Tinney family for Belcourt Castle, a museum in Newport, R .. I. On September 26, Charles Krigbaum played the rededicatory recital on the 1875 2-13 Holbrook organ in the congregational Chuxch, Killin~North, Conn., recently restored by Richard Hamar. On November 3, Mr. Krigbaum will play the dedicatory recital on the new Rudolf von Beckerath organ in Dwight Chapel, Yale University, New Haven, Conn .. , and on November 7 he will play the· opening recital on the new Fisk organ in Center Church, New Haven.

The Newsletter is published monthly by The Boston Organ Club, 33 Bowdoin Street, Boston,t{assachusetts, 02114. Editor: E. A. Boadway, P.o. Box 779, Claremont, New Hampshire, 03743. Program Chairman: Miss Barbara J. Owen, 46A Curtis Street, Pigeon Cove, ~assachusetts, 01966; telephone A~ea 617, 546-2946. Treasurer: Alan M. Laufman, Storm King School, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New Yo~k, 12520. Meetings are usually held on the last Sunday afternoon of each month, except June and December. Membership: $5.00 per year. yctober 1971 Page 2 F. Robert Roche has completed rebuilding the three-manual Hutchings-Votey organ in the Unitarian Church, Fairhaven, Hass., essentially a nev.J instrument of three map.uals and four divisions 'in the old cases at th(-3 front or the large Gothic sanctt1ary. The following recitals are scheduled: w. Raymond Ackerman, 8:30 p.m., 26 November; Deane Place, 4:00 p.m .. , 16 Januaryf Peloquin Chorale and Orchestra, 3:00p.m., 20 February; Bernard Lagace, 8:00 p.m., 19 ~tarch; and Rollin Smith, 8~00 p.m., 12 April. Tickets for the Ackerman, Peloquin and Lagace recitals are $3.00; the other programs are $2.00 each. C+ub members may obtain tickets to~the entire series for $10.,00 by ad dressing ~Ar. Roche soon at P.O. Box 971, Taunton, Mass., 02780. Mr:·~ Ackerman has just been appointed organist and choir director at the First United Baptist Church, Lowell, Mass., succeeding our member Carrol F. Craft, who is moving west. A fine J .. H. & c. s. Odell organ, Opus 370, ].899, in the Rondout Presbyterian Chm•ch, Kingston, N.Y., is being broken up and the pipes of the 2..:..23 instrument will become an echo organ ~n the Fair Street Reformed Church, Kingston.

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, CHESTER, NEV'J JF.RSEY. J. H. & C. S. Odell, New York, Opus 128, 187.3. MAJ'WAL: (enclosed) PEDAL: Open Diapason 8t 58 Bourdon 16 1 25 Keraulophon 8t 46 Dulciana St. 1.:.6 Clarionet Flute 8t 46 Stopped Dia. Bass St 12 ;Principal 4' 58 Wald Fiut~ 4' 46 Tremulant Twelfth 2 2/3 I 58 Fifteenth 21 58 Pedal coupler Sesquialtera III 174 Trumpet 8t 46 Bellows This very pleasing organ stands on a platform at the right of the pulpit in a white-painted frame Greek Reviv.al building, in wr.tich the walls still bear the late 19th century painted decorations. The chestnut case has black walnut trimmings and decorated front pipes are in three simple flats, arranged 7/7/7, of which 17 c"re Open Diapason b.s.ss pipes. The upper part of the sides of the case show the Bolirdon pipes. The -console is covered by two large sliding doors; the flat, :round-shanked knobs are lettered in Italics and s~cript; the mechanical and Pedal knobs are of a l:tghc-colored 1/~ood; the foot rest folds down; the wooden Stl\lell pedal operates a .very effectbre set of vertical shades; the diamond-shaped red-stained ivory nameplate is above t:t.e elaborate, fretworked music desk. The organ is in good condition, having been renovLli3 sugg'Jf't.icJl'\~J.. I aL.o 8tated my vir:>ws, & in the end received inst:i:'1;.ct:1..cns .to p-repa·•:-e a .spccif:'u:s.t::.on of the p;:vrticulars which I decnrad necessary & o:~edient, & proct:re th~reon er;timates from two or three organ·.-builders ..

Having been much indiS1JOSed during the following week, I did not commence operatj.ons until 1\IICJ.Y 24 .. ' EH.

~ Cont:mts of the Organ as it now /stands May 24 t;_h 1841 ' G::eat Organ. GG (no GO#) to f Open Diapason Stopt Dv P.d::e:\. pal T~~(.: :i .. ~·t.b. ~F:iftee11tl1 'rj ,er )~·F) Sesq·; da.ltcra T:c•l:J(lj.'"jl(;:t . Corn~'t (to C) ReJ:tB.rks.. The general quality vexy 'gooc1, but the Open Di~=.:pason not suffident.ly !X..,il'·t:•r.t'ul .for the upper w.:>rk, the effect of' which is fierce, especially when the Trnmpet is nvt d:t·a·Nn. ·,

Choir Organ~ Compass as before. Storperl Dlapa§on D1lciana Pr:1.neipal l'~lut•::l Fifteenth Vox Humc~.:r..a .. RePRrks. ]ffuch too loudly voice3d, many of the stops being almost equal to corresponding stops of the· great ox•gan ..

:2:\• :JL::.. Swell. to -x.. '!...... - Oy.:en Diapason, StoiYt Dj,,c;;pa.son Pri.nc:i_pal T>:'Ul:lpE:'L

',1\ Hnuc-i.)o:y Rf!ffiD.rks. Qual::!. ty good. Swell 'ineffect:bre. Quant.i ty & .compass much too limi.... ted.' Volcing __unequal...... ,.__, 'l'he baos keys (be~~ the swell,) dumb. General Remarks. ,~The bellows ~-?...£ID::Ln.3JJ~." (Old e.11guJar kind) The td>uch not a pleasan-t one, being harf,b & hard at the ~-.op. :No Pedal pipes, but a row (an octave & a half) of VG-r:y clumsy ped!'l.J. by:;s·; mal;i.ng when at-work a noisy & di.s tu:r·bing rattle. Gen~ral condition ofc the crgan ,as good as oouJ.d be expeGted, & t-he pipes gen?rally, apparently in very fair order* No copula movements .. A 'i'x·em'Li:lant, unserviceable.. ·rhe old wolf s,ys,tem of t1.me .. -----·-•, I Skeleton sketch - oi' the October 1971 Page 5

"Specification of Additions, Alterations & Improvements suggested by me, sent in to the Committee this day. May 25. 1841. The Swell to be enlarged down to C, 4 ft. All the present'stops to be retained, and completed downwards. The Vox Humana to be transplated thither from the Choir organ, throwing away the pipesbelow c 4 ft. Add. _JCorn~t. 3 ranks. (12tp 15t.h 17t.h) Lclar:LOn. Enlarge old Sound-board, or make a new one at the option of the builder. Double SWell-bo:x:, with cavity all round of 5 inches clear, stuffed. Interior lined with tin. Three sets of shades:-hung on frame hinged as folding doors. -Shades to be lined on each side with milled-board, overlapping the joints one inch, wood of the shades not more than 4 inches wide. Distance apart of the sets 4 inches or more. The axj_s at the bottom. Hotion outwards. Range of S1rrell Pedal at le~st 7 inches.-Accelera tiv-e action, all terminating together at an angle of 45°. - SUvell box to be placed as high as possible without unsightliness. Premise of assistance & acivice from EH in case of difficulty.· st John's swell referred to. Bass keys below the swell, to be permanently attached to those of the Choir Organ. Now dumb. The Choir Organ stops all to remain, saving the Vox Humanc;:t. Bassoon bass, & Cremona treble (from 4 ft C) to be substituted, drawing separately. The Choir Organ ger1erally to be so.ftened. The Great Organ to remain unaltered, saving a strengthening df the Open Diapason by planting up the lower part of the scale a semitone, & adding a pipe at or near the bottom.. ) The keys & attendant draw-stops &c to be brought down 15 or 18 inches, (the floor of the choir being to be lowered,) and the whole organ to be set back 12 inches. Two octaves of brass-pedals (as at st John's) to be added. EH to furnish the model. Compass CCC to C - twenty five notes. St {Open Diapason 16 ft. 16 in by 17~ in ops Dulciana. · 16 ft. 8 in by 9. Both of wood. The pedal pipes to be planted in the passage way behind the organ (15 inches after the o:rgan shall have been set back 12 inches, to be yet further augmented by the removal of the back. This .for the Open Diapason. The Dulcianas to be laid down horizontally on the floor where the bellows now are, saving one or two for ovvhich space may be found to stand erect. The estimate to include the cost of making good the case in mahogany to the wall, to match the old work. Entirely new & sufficient bellows with competent feeders for the whole organ, old & new, to be provided & erected in the belfry adjoining. The weight of wind 2~ inches of vvater. Tell--tale & blower 1 s signal to be furnished~ October 1971 Page 6 ------~------~ The present instrument to be thoroughly repaired & set in good order throughout, & ·where originally defective, or i.njured, or decayed by lapse of time or other circumstances, to be rectified & reston;d. If from the complexity of the movements now specified, the builder should deem new keys & action necessary, he is to state so much in his estimate. Tunin~ that of equal temper.:un.ent. The pitch of the organ not to be raised. Leave granted to order extra ~rk to the amount of $50, without vitiating the contract, such extra work to bemade the subject of special agreem-ent in writing. The whole to be performed in a workmanlike manner; the materials used to be the best of their kind usually employed in ,sjJ!lilar undertakings, & the entire work to be completed by the day of next, subject to the superintendence, direction, supervision & approbation of 1)!' Hodges, upon production of whose cer tificate of the completion of the work, pa;yment is to. be made. Meml!l Keys to be left at the Office for the use of the Estimators. Estimates tq be sent to If H.. 70 Franklin St by Monday, May Jl--:--1841. 9. am. (EH. ~{ay 25. 1841.) !irremlll I learnt on Sunday last (23r.d inst 1). from Mr Youngs, that Mr Erbe12 had sent to him his ideas as to what was needful to be done to the organ; & today I chanced by accident to see the document, but upon both occasions declined to peruse it, or to become acquainted with its contents. EH. ltlay 2)~h 1841. Memi!l p .. s .. This afternoon I delivered the Specification, together with three copies thereof, to Mr Youngs, at st Paul's Chapel. Mr wm Hall & 11ft' Robjohn;were present, & some discussion and explanation en sued, luf Youngs apparently being apprehensive that I was about to involve the Vestry in unnecessary expense. He (r.,rr Youngs) produced M:r' Erbents statement of .needful repa;krs & additions (as I believe, in the IJ'll'iting of Mr Thomas Hall) & at his lll:'gent request, I at . length perused it. As in conscience & duty bound, I, after perusal, pronounced it vague, meagre & altogether unsatisfactory; & that if. carried into effect it would not make such an improvement in the instrument as to justofy the outlay. For additions, it included nothing more than two octaves of pedal pipes, (size, -m.aterio.l & description, alike indeterminate,) & three or four copula stops; forimp:r.ovements, simply a new bellows (nature not mentioned) & cleaning out t EH. May 2). 1841. 8 p.m. May 27. ]l.[r Youngs returned to me one of the copies of the specification for Mr Crabb, say±ng that he had transmitted the oth~r two to the parties before named. ~ ]Jfemlll Hay 2 6 t.h 1841 I called upon Mr Youngs this morning, expecting to receive back the three copies of the specification, with his signature as chairman of the Committee; but he thotl.ght it expedient first to consult the other members of the Committee, & thereto distribute them for esti.11ates himself; wherefore I gave him .in writing the names of the three organ-builders to whom I had intended sending them, viz Henry Erben Henry Crabb (Flatbush) Firth & Hall. EH. same day. 6 p.m. May 27tp yr Youngs'returned to me o~e copy of the specification, to be by me handed to Mr Crabb. It was not signed by him, as he said that the committee deemed his official signature unnecessary. May 28. I this day handed t.he specification to Mr Crabb, for him to prepare an October 1971 Page 7 estimate; & afterwards accompanied him to st Paul's Church, for him to examine the instrument. EH. same day. 11 p.m. May 29. Called upon 11' Erben, & conversed with him about the specification. Compliments exchanged! June 12 • Drew up a note to Crabb, & also a similar note to Fi:rth & Hall, asking what amount of reduction of expense would take place if the following parts of the ~~ecificati~ere dispensed with 1. All the Dulciana pedal pipes, except those necessary to complete the Dul- ciana of the c.o. down to 16 ft c. (17 pipes less) 2. The Clarion of the Swell 3. & 4 Bassoon & Cremona of the C. o. 5. Cop. Pedals & CO, the pedals being permanently attached instead. &.lastly if the Great Organ Cornet were placed in the Swell (instead of a new one & completed down to C 4 ft. June 12. Same day called upon Mr Thomas Hall (principal mechanician &c at Erben 1 s) at his house, & asked him verbally a similar question. He told me I could about as well as ;he could himself, & seemed unvdlling to enter further into the subject. June 14 Received replies in writing from Firth & Hall & Mr Crabb, both giving precisely the same aJnount of reduction, viz fpb.OO. Mr Crabb also informed me verbally, that if the organ were not set back, but suffered to remain on its present, site, a further saving of $100 would be effected. Total $500. June 14. I communicated the foregoing information to the chairman of the Com mittee, both verbally & in writing, previously to the Vestry meeting held this day. June 15. 1841. Mr Youngs (the Chairman of the Committee) told me this morning that at the Vestry meeting of last night, the matter had been referred back to the Committee, with instructions simply to get the organ cleaned, tuned & set in order, as originally constructed & no more. So all ends in smokel I told him that the instrument had be;tter remain untouched, saving &.. except ing ordinary tuning, & that as for cleaning out, once in seventy years was about often enough 1 t t Memorandum. Throughout the 1vhole progress of this business, the Comnittee I am sorry to say has evinced that it reposed no sort of confidence in me. Up to the present moment I am totally uninformed-of the amount of any one of the estimates sent in by the gentlemen concerned. EH. June 15tp 1841.

The organ was cleaned, and (by the col'1mon consent of the choir & of all others who could form a judgment upon the business) not improved by the opera- tionL 'Mem. On Monday May 15t.h 1843 an examination into the state of the instrument was entered upon by C C Moore Esqr~ & !F Thomas Hall, in the presence of the rector (Rev~ Dr Berrian) & the comptroller (W H Harrison Esq~e;) when the exami ners (as I understand) suggested nearly a similar set of additions & improve ments to those herein described in the foregoing ''specificationu; the extension of the swell, addition of pedal-pipes and copulas, and giving more Diapason to the Great Organ. The principal variation from my plan I believe consisted of the idea of taking away the Cornet from the Great Organ & substituting an open Diapason, which of course could be only a half stop. Probably also the Clarion & other small additional stops before proposed have not been recommended on this occasion. EH. ~Jay 16. 1843 October 1971 Page 8 May 16. 1843. I this day called upon JY.f' Thomas Hall, shd\IIIed him the whole of. the memoranda in this book up to the foregoing pe.ge inclusive, and conferred with him as to the intended alterations & improvements; when he made the dis covery that in my "speci.ficationtt as copied into this book I had altogether · omitted mention of .the copulas; although they c())nstituted almost the leading feature of my intended improvements, and -i'rere certainly enumerated in the copies of the document which were given out for estimates.

On September 24, Bernard Lagace played the dedicatory recital on the new tracker action organ in the Harrison Otis Apthorp Chapel, Milton Academy, Milton, ]J.[assachus et ts. The instrument is by Casavant Freres, Limitee, of St. Hyacfiithe,Quebec, and st'2nds in four cases in the rear gallery-( the Pedale is divided). The electric com bination action includes six pistons for each division and eight generals; the com 1 pass is 56/32; and there are 1,952 pipes in the forty ranks. The stoplist is: GRAND ORGDE: POSIT IF: PEDAIE: Bourdon 16' Salicional 8' Soubasse 16 f Montre 8 r Bourdon 8' Octave basse 81 Flute a cheminee 8' Prineipal 4 I Bourdon 8t Prestant 4' Flute 41 Octave 4~ Flute 4' Nasard 2 2/3 r Fourniture (2 1 ) IV' Doublette 2' Doublette 2' Bombarde 161 Fourniture (1 1/3 r) V Quarte de nasard 2' Basson 161 Dour,aine 16' Tierce 1 J/5' Trompette Bt Trompette 8' Larigot 1 1/3 1 Chalumeau 4' Clairon 4 1 Cymb.;J..le (2/3 r) IV Cromorne 8r Couplers (reversible) Tremulant Positif a Grand orgue Grand argue a Pedale Positif a Pedale

The Organ Literature Foundation, t.hat excellent privater library not far from Bos- ton, is___ arso a-Tirrr1 aealfrig in books, maga.z.ines and recordings, and every Club member should be on the Foundation 1 S mailing list. Henry Karl Baker has again reprinted a worthy and interesting older treatise -- H. F. Milne's The Reed Organ: Its Design and Construction, originally published/in London in 1930. The 100-page paperback tells 11'0v~tabu:Lld such an organ, as well as perform maintenance, and provides answers for people with free reed difficulties. Mr .. Baker has, as usual, provided a copy for the Club library, and will be. happy to send out others for '$5,.00 each. Address the Foundation at 45 Nor .folk Road, Braintree, Mass., 0218J.~.

Your editor has at long last moved his place of residence to his place of work - farther from Boston, unfortunately. The new mailing address is P.O. Box! 779, Clare lll')nt, N.H., 03743 •. He is now the organist and choir director for a small and friendly congregation in an old and very reverberant church building, the First Bap tif~t Chu:'ch, Newport, N.H., where he is even allowed the pleasure of choosing the hymns each Sunday. The organ is a 2-9 1897 Hook & Hastings described in the Ne-ws- letter f'or January 1971. --'--- I {(- ..* ~t- New members of The Boston ,.Qrgan Club: Gammons, Edward B. Groton School Groton, M?ss. 01458 Lewis, Jim 6216:.Yucca Street Hollywood, Calif. 90028 McCarth~, Marjorie Box 187 Dublin, N.H. 03444 Meikle, Sue Box 802 South Lancaster, Mass. 01561 THE BOSTON ORGAN CLUB NEVVSIETTER

Vo~.:}, No. 10, Whole J:.To _:-.22:______November 1971 Raymond A. DiBona has planned the Club meeting for Sunday; November 21. We are to visit four two-manual turn-of-the-century organs south of Boston andthe schedule is: 2:30 A. Russell Lucid estate, Cedarcliff Road, Braintree; 2-9 Jesse Woodberry & Co. 3; 15 St. Paul r s Roman Catholic Church, Main Street, Hingham; 2-12 John H. Sole. 4:00 Congregational Church, 1320 Coi!ll'hercial Street, East Weymouth Center; Hutchings-v otey Organ Co. 5:30 Supper at Maria r s Italian-American Restaurant, 1Quincy Avenue, ~tree. 7:00 Recital honoring the centeru1ia:)_ of the parish at Sacred Heart Roman Catho lic Church, Washington Street, Weymouth Landing; Brian Jones organist; 2-16 Jesse Woodberry & co., partiallyrenovat.ed and tonally altered by the Ando ver Organ Company in 1971. If you wish you help demonstrate an organ, bring some music. There will be an opportunity to play the organ in Sacred Heart Church. To :reach the Lucid home, exit from Route 128 South (after it has become Route 3) at &"'Cit 27 (ttSoo Braintree, Union St~n); go off the ramp (byValle 1 s Steak House) and under the overpass, keeping right and on to Union Street; proceed a mile and turn left. in the center of Weymouth (at the intersection are a white church, Capitol Mar ket and Clark & Taber Chevrolet); go up Quinby Avenue. and take the third street on the left, which is Cedarcliff Road; the house is the first large brown mansion on the left side. Persons who can attend only Mr. Jones 1 rcci tal should use the above instructions, but turn right at the intersection in the center of Weymouth described above and a bric~ church~ill be visible.

]ffiCTURES - Yuko Hayashi's superb recital at the West Concord Union Church on October 31 was certainly the highlight of the last Club meeting. The church and Mr. Beaudry e.re be congratulated tool Go and hear Brian Jones this month. Plea3e send announcements of special Christmas programs to the editor as soon as pos8i.bl2. Do not forget that the December issue is ;the last you will receive with the 1971 dues . The University Lutheran Church, VTinthrop and Dunster Streets, Cambridge, :Mass., is displaying the new two-manual Noack organ in a Bach Festival series. The future concerts are: Parti tas for Harpsichord, No~ lt-6, David Berger, harpsichordist, 8 p.m., Nov. 21; Narian Ruhl, organist, 8 p.m., December 5; Musica Sacra, Allen Hnszti, conductor, 8 p.m., December 12; The Goldberg Variations, Ellen Polansky, p:i..anist, 8 p.m., January 9; and Trudi Saloman and Nicholas Van Slyck, duo-pianists, 8 p.m., January 16. The organ was dedicated in a recital by David Beyer during the afternoon of October 31. j-ames M. Bratton of Denver would like to e:xar;line organ compositions by vr. Eugene Thayer (1838:...1889) for an O.H.S. convention'recital. Anything in your attic?

The Newsletter is published monthly by The Boston Organ Club, 33 Bowdoin Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02114. Editor: E.,A. Boadway, P.O. Box 779, Claremont, New Hampshire, 03743. Program Chairman:. Miss Barbara J. Owen, 46A Curtis Street, Pigeon Cove, Massachusetts, 01966; telephone Area 617, .5~.6-2946. Treasurer: Alan M. Laufman, Storm King School, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, 12520. Meetings .are usually held on the last Sunday afternoon of each month, except June and December. Membership;! $5.00 per year. November------1971 Page 2 In the Newsletter for September 1971 is a description of the 1842 Hook organ in the clm:rch_Of.theThird Coni;regational Sociiety (Unitarian), Springfield, r~ass., now in use in the First Parish Church (Uni ta:cirm) 3 Nor-t.hfield, Mass. The old building in Springfield, converted to commercial purpose.:;, burned a few years after the erec tion of the splendid stone church on State Street, described. in the following arti cles from The Springfield D2.ily Republican. The edifice was an early w,ork by the famous architect, H:-li::"''RicTiardson-.-the organ was E. & G. G. Hook's Opus 449, 1868, a 2-33 rebuilt" and enlarged by J. vr. Steere & Son in 1901. Tlie site of the church is now a weed-filled vacant lot. Monda.y, Februc:try _l2_, 1869: The Church of the Unity. THE ASPECT OF THE IlT'IERIOR The new and beautiful church which has been erected and just completed by the Third Congregational (Unitarian) society on State street, will be first opened to the public, to-morrow evening, for the .organ exhibition, and will be dedicated on the following day. Its finely proportioned exterior, with solid walls and spire of Long meadow free stone, has become familiar to every dweller in Springfield, and has been more and more admired as its Italian-Gothic architecture, so graceful, yet so digni fied, has been oftener seen and mo~e. fully appreciated. Internally, however, it has been viewed by fe-w, except those who will hereafter make it their house of worship, and the public may therefore read with some interest a general description of what rr.ay be seen there. Entering through the tower doors or those at the northeast corner of the building, one comes into the cloister or vestry, with its row of handsome mullioned windows, looking toward State street. Th:tee doors lead thence into the audience room, and over the middle and principal one are the appropriate inscriptions, 11 The Lord is in. his hoJy temple." ttEnter into his gates ·with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise.tt On passing into the audience room.the visitor receives at first the im pression of novel and profuse decoration, but the harmony, unity and beauty of the whole design soon becomes apparent, and a doubtful admiration gives place to one that is complete and hearty. There is no accounting for tastes, and there are some, per haps, who will dislike this church; but the vast majority will pronounce it a beauti ful temple for the worship of God. The audience room has a lofty nave and two lateral aisles, with rows of heavy brown stone columns on the line separating the ma,in nave from each of the two side naves or aisles. These colUI11.'1S have carved bases and capitals, and from them spring pilasters and the arches which visibly support the roof. The latter is divided into 2.52. panels of' ultra-marine blue by ornamental brown bands. By day the church is .lighted fl~otn the rose window (which is fifteen feet in diameter) and from twelve arched windows on each side, six o.f which are in the clear story. By night, light is furnished by 180 gas burners, nine of which encircle the cap of each of the pilasters, forming a very brilliant yet not d~zzling illumination. At the end of this room op posite to the entrances from State street is a simple desk of black walnut, with a cross emblazoned in front. It stands at a slight elevation, and is approached by stairs from either side, while two other flights of about the same length lead from the pulpit, one to the singers 1 balcony in front of an arch or alcove on the left, and one to a corresponding balcony and alcove on the right, which will be made a sort of mausoleum.. High up-seemingly about half way from the floor of the church to the apex of the roof--is the organ arch. Entirely outside of this arch and upon a large bracket of black walnut (which is decorated with gold, the panels being a deep, rich maroon), stand fifty pipes of English blocl\: tin, forming the front of the organ. These are arranged in a novel and singular way, there being two towers, composed of large pipes, at each side, with smaller pipes extending in gradation downwards toward the center. These pipes are unstained, except their mouths, which are gilded, and their tops, whiqh have a band of red and gold. The relief of color is principally given by me.ans of blue metal bands passing across the front of the pipes, not hori zontally but at different angles. On some of these bands are painted, "Serve the Lord with gladness;tt HBreak forth into singing;11 "Make a joyful noise unto God;'' November 1971 Page 3 "Make his praise glorious." But the most novel thing about this very unique organ front is a musical scroll at the top of each of the two towers referred to, on which appears "the ninth Gregorian tone," written with ancient musical characters, on a staff of only four lines. The Egyptian order of decoratio.,. prevails elsewhere in the church, and is carried out with strict fidelity; there arc innumerable pat terns, but always the same general style of treatment. The ground color is a stone buff, which is enlivened with browns, blacks and vermillion. The trusses of the roof and wall are bordered by a maroon band, and a frieze of blue extends around the room, bearing in Gothic letters these inscriptions: On the south (pulpit) side--"0 worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness;" on the west side--11Lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that waU{eth uprightly and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart; 11 on the north side, under the large rose window--ttPeace be within thy wall;ll on the east side--"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself~~~ On the wall above the rose window is painted a quatrefoil--a beautiful kaleidoscopic figure v.rhich will repay long examination and study; and there is one precisely like it at the opposite end of the room, in the space above the organ pipes. The pews are made of unpainted chestnut, trimmed with black walnut, and are arranged alternately for five and seven persons, except those in the side naves, which retain somewhat the ancient square form, seen in the old Unitarian church. The carpets are maroon, v1i th a small black figure. Every detail in its relation to every other one shows a unity of design that is at once satisfac tory and admirable. The church has been nearly two years in building. Ground was broken on March 1, 1867, and the corner stone was laid on the 20th of Hay in the same year, since which time the work has progressed steadily and without interruption. The entire cost is a little short of $14S,ooo, of which nearly $30,000 was paid for the lot, and $7500 for the organ,--the front of the organ alone costing $1000. H. H. Richardson of New York, was the architect, Ponsonby & l'IcGuinn the stone masons, Marshall ahd Ricker of New York the carpenters, IN. J. McPherson of Boston, the decorator, and E. & G. G. Hook of Roston, the organ builders. ~:Iost of the actual labor of the decoration has been done by William Healey, a fine artist employed by Mr. McPherson, who has execu ted the work without drawings or sketches of any kind to aid his eye. Great cl~edit is due to these artificers, as well as to Col J. H. Thompson, chairman of the build ing committee, who has given almost his whole time to the church, watching the labor in all its details with as much care and attention as if the building had been his own. And now "the end crowns the work."

Thursday, February~' 1869: The new organ in the church of the Unity nears completion. Almost all the pipes are in, and the labor of tuning them will soon connnence. The plan of the loca tion of the instrument has been modified somewhat from its original shape. It was at first intended to put all the pipes within the arch that was left for the organ, and to arrange the front ones in fan shape. Instead of this, some fifty speaking pipes have been placed upright outside of the arch and about a foot from the line. They are pure block tin, unstained by paint or gilt, and stand tastefully in groups, ac cording to difference L~ size. The relief of color is furnished by broad metal bands, which pass in front of the pipes from one group to another and which are now being brilliantly illuminated. The position of the organ has been generally con sidered objectionable in being so much within an arch of stone; but by putting pipes outside the arch and by placing the whole organ very high, as has been done, it is believed that this disadvantage will be largely overcome. Tuesday, February 16, 1869: THE UNITARIAN ORGAN--TO:-NIGHT'S CONCERT. The organ which the Hooks of Boston have just erected in the new Church of the Unity deserves more than a passing notice. There have been, it must be confessed, November 1971 Page 4

grave apprehensions with regard to it. The organ loft, as at first designed, ~as within a stone arch, and it was feared that an organ, so placed_, be it ever so fine, would give a poor account of itself to the publ5.c. The pipes, however, have been arranged on a plan somewhat different from the one at first proposed. Many of the important ones stand on brackets outside the arch, and almost all the others are placed so that there is slj,ght if any impediment to the exit of the sound into the audlence room. In fact, only a very few pipes--and those the large wooden ones- stand behind the stone walls of the arch at all.. The result is that the organ, in stead of being the failure which many persons have predicted, is a gratifying and magnificent success. It is placed so high that the sound seems to roll out and fill completely the great gothic nave and thence permeate every part of the room. The stone walls of the church help to make the room an excellent one for sound_, and the effect of the instrument in the loudest passages as well as the softest is all that could be desired. It is the grand fault of most of the organs built now-a-days, that sweetness, with every other agreeable quality, is sacrificed to mere noise. If the organ makes a thundering sound, it is supposed to be exceeding fine. Every pipe is therefore voicedto shriek its utmost, and as to soft stops, ther~ are positively none at all; so that, however brilliant and showy an instrument may be for concert purposes, it is of no practical use in accompanying voices, except a large chorus. It is but fair to say that this fault, now becoming so common, is not chargeable upon the Unitarian organ. Perhaps its location, rather than the builders, may be responsible for this merit, and if so the Unitarians should be devoutly thankful that it stands where it does. Its f'ull povver is grandly loud without being boisterous or harsh, while it can be softened almost to a whisper. For the benefit of organists and others interested in such matters we append a list of its stops, giving in each case the number of pipes:- Great Organ--Open diapason (8 feet) 58, open diapason (16 feet) 58, dulciana 58, salicional 58, stopped diapason bass l2, stopped diapason treble 46, melodia 46, octave 58, flute d'amour 58, twelfth 58, fifteenth 58, mixture (four ranks) 232, · trumpet 58. . SWell Organ--Open diapason 58, keraulophon 58, lieblich gedact 58, stopped diapa son 58, flauto traverse 58, octave 58, iolina 58, picolo 58, mixture (two ranks) 116, . clarionet 46, bassoon 12, oboe 46. Pedal Organ--Double open diapason 27, violoncello 27, bourdon 27. M8chanical stops--Great to pedal, swell to pedal, swell to great, tremulant, bel lows signal. Besides the mechanical appliances mentioned above there are five combination ped als-~three for changing stops on the gTeat organ and two for the swell organ. These are great conveniences for the player, saving him much trouble in shifting stops by hand. There is also a separate pedal for coupling the pedal organ with the great organ. The instrument, here briefly described, will, to-night, under the fingers of Dr Willcox, speak its own merits more clearly and forcibly than words of ours can do. The fame of Willcox as a brilliant and captivating player is too well knolll[n to need recital, and the public's expectation that the concert will be an unusually fine one will not be disappointed. The choir of the church will lend their aid, giving a welcome variety to the occasion. Details can be learned from the program, printed elsewhere in this paper, to which we invite attention. The number of tickets is limited, and an early application may be necessary to secure them.

GRA.ND CONCERT and OPENING OF THE Of ORGAN just erected in the CHURCH OF T:t-lli UNITY, By Messrs E. & G. G. Hook of Boston. Novembsr 1971 Page 5

J. H. WilLCOX, Mus. Doc., From the Church of the TlliDlaculate Conception, Boston, Organist, Assisted by the QU.ARTET'IE OF THE CHURCH.

PRO GRfJ~l!i'!!E • Part I. l. "Gloria in Excelsis Deo, n Mass No. 1. Hunrne 1. 2. Andante--1st Symphony. Beethoven. 3. Trio from the Creation, Haydn. By the Choir of the Church. 4. overture. "Jeune Henri Chasse. u Mehul. 5. IIOffertorioll in D. Morandi. 6. Sacred Song--For My' soul thirsteth for Thee 0 God Mendelssohn. (from As pants the Hart). Ml.~s William c. McClallan. 7. Improvisation. J. H. Willcox.

Part II. l. Overture • nListocq. u Auber. 2. Quartette from t!Rigoletto." Verdi. By the Choir of the Church. Representation of a Thunder Storm. J. H. Willcox. 1. Intended to give an idea of the calmness and repose of nature on a summer afternoon. The pipe of the shepherd is heard in the distance, then echoed from hill to hill, and now near by. Rustic dance interrupted by distant mutterings of thunder. 2. Approach of the storm. Distant thunder is heard; it grows louder as the storm grows nearer; moaning and rushing of the wind. The storm breaks with full violence. 3. The storm subsides and the Vesper Hymn is heard, sung by the peasants, as a thanksgiving for a safe deliverance from the tempest. 4- Song. tr L t Es tasi." Ardi ti. s. Communion in E for oboe and bassoon stops. Batiste. 6. Overture. ttFra Diavolo.tt Auber. concert to begin at 8 o 1 clock pr,ecisely. Tickets $1, for sale at H. Foot & Cor s and Powers Paper Company's until 6 o 1clock, and after that time at the Church.

Wectnesday, February 17, 1869: (Paragraphs on the dedication and history of the-cburc~appended~o-rhe-rBView, are here omitted.) The Church of the Unity. THE ORGAN CONCERT, LAST NIGHT. Canrt Willcox play, though? His performance, last night, on the splendid organ in the Church of the Unity, was just superb. It was the next thing to hearing a full orchestra. Th~ endless variety and contrasts of tone; the agreeable little conver sations which the various instruments seem to hold, each having its "say,n and each, as it were, expressing its opinion; the crescendos-, swelling into a grand volume of sound; the diminuendos, sinkirie; away, as light fades, almost into silence--these effects and many more were produced with the hand of a master. It is generally November 1971 Page 6 conceded that. Dr Willcox, as an exhibitor of the cap3.cities of an organ, is without a peer. He is not a strict player, and does not pretend to be; the purists on music may frown upon him, but the f

comparison is a fair one, as the styJ as of the two performers are nearly the same 4 Willcox played nothing so finely, last,night, as his overtures, and the one from Au ber 's III_,istocqn was especially b::'illiant and effective. His thunder was about as good as Nature's own. The vocal piec8s were likewise successful. We never heard 1~s McClallan sing so well. She gave that exquisite air of Mendelsso{m' s, --11For my soul thirsteth for Thee, 11 -with a true appreciation of its beauty, which ·was mirrored perfectly in her clear, placid voice. And then that bewitching waltz trifle of Arditi 1 s (L'Estasi)- how sweetly and charmingly she sang i t1 The lovers of choice music would rejoice to know that this concert,·· so auspiciously opening the new orga.n, was the forerunner of many as good. If such is the case, we can safely Pfedict that every seat in the beautiful church will be filled on each occasion as they were last night.

Wednesday, Noye~er 13, 1901: A FINE NBW CHURCH ORGAN. The Reconstruction of the Instrument at the Church of the Unity by a Local Firm--Plans for Organ Recital. The work on the reconstruction of the organ in the church of the Unity, which has been in progress since July, is now practically completed, and the organ will be played on publicly for the first time at the church services on the 24th. The church is to hold 5 o'clock vesper services in future in place of the evening gathering, and the completion of the organ will facilitate the plan of making the afternoon service largely musical. The first recital on .the new organ will be given Tuesday evening, the 26th, by the church organist, Me Turner, at which the regular choir will probably assist. It is Mr Turner 1 s plan to give weekly recitals through the winter, and the valuable work which he has been doing in this way will be much helped by the moderni zing of the organ. Until recently this city has been notably deficient in what may be called Hup-to-datell organs. ]ll[ost of our larger churches were organized a good while ago, and were financially so prosperous as to be able to put in substantial instruments, which have endured to the present day, for the "life" of.an organ is al most unlimited. It does not wear out like a piano. So :J;t happens that Springfield is backward in this respect, as compared with many smaller and newer towns. In some .cases a few modern improvements have been added, but the organ of the church of the Unity is the first of the old instruments to be completely modernized. This excellent instrument was built by E· Hook and G. G. Hook of Boston, w:h,ose name is more familiar through the Hook & Hast.ings organs. The action was, of course, old-fashioned, and there were,practical difficulties in the effective use of the instrun~nt, but it had many merits, some of the stops being of exceptionally fine quality, and the effect of the instrument in the c)lurch was sonorous and telling. The pipes were voiced by ,John Wilcox, a celebrated expert, whom many of the older or ganists will remember, not ~nly for his skilful work, but for his musical gifts. He had unusual facility in Lmprovisation. The work of remodeling the organ has been carried by the John s. Steere & Sons /sic] company of this city, and is a vEJry com plete and searching piece of' work.. The fine olq pipes are left, and that is practi cally all. There is no change in the external appearance of the instrument, but within it is as different from the old organ as a modern battle ship with electric appliances is from an old frigate. In the first place, the resources of the organ have been vastly ~ncreased by the addition of nine new stops, giving not only more power, but more variety and richness of expression, especially in solo passages and for very soft effects. In the second place, the old tracker-action has been taken out and replaced throughout by the Weigle tubular-pneumatic action, a German inven tion, for which the Steeres have American rights, and which has taken a foremost November 1971 Page 7 plc:.ce among the many competing systems of pneumatic action. Finally, the instrum8nt has be2n equipped with all those ingenious mechanical de vices which have evolved in recent yea:c·s by French and American inventors, and which give the organist an immensely increased command over the resources of the instrument. Such are the adjustable combination stops, by which the organist can prepare several effects before he begins to play, and then throw on the VJhole combination at the pro per place by pressing a button, instead of pulling stop by stop in the old style. There are four such combinations possible in this instrument, which suffices amply for almost any composition. Then there is a new crescendo pedal which gives the or ganist absolute control over the instrument, so that from a pianissimo he can work up to the full power of the organ with ease and certainty. All these modern appliances are snugly packed in a handsome new console of quartered oak and mahogany, which stands behind the choir and is turned obliquely so that the organist can see the singers easily. The results can be described better after the organ has been heard, but what is to be expected can be judged by those who are familiar with organs from this schedule:- Great organ (11 stops): Double open diapason, 16 feet; open diapason, 8; clara bella, 8; stopped diapason, 8; salicional, 8; flauto d'amore, 4; octave, 4; fifteenth, 2; twelfth, 2 2~3; 3-rank mixture; trumpet, 8. Choir organ (seven stops): Melodia, 8 feet; geigen principals, 8; viola d r orches tre, 8; dulciana, 8; flute harmonique, 4; clp.rinet, 8; flautino, 2. Swell organ (13 stops): Bourdon, 16 feet; open diapason, 8; stopped diapason, 8; keraulophon, 8; voix celeste, 8; flauto traverso, 4; violine, 4; piccolo, 2; two-rank mixture; oboe and bassoon combined, 8; vox humana, 8. Pedal (focrr stops): Lieblich gedackt, 16 feet; bourdon, 19; double open diapason, 16; Violoncello, 8. Couplers (9): Swell to great; choir to great; swell to choir; great to pedal; swell to pedal; choir to pedal; swell/to great, super-octave; choir to great, sub octave; total coupler. Miscellaneous: Swell tremolo; choir tremolo. Set combinations (four pistons): (1) piano on all organs; (2) mezzo forte; (3) forte; (4) fortissimo. · Adjustable combinations (four pistons): Can be set to .any combination. Grand crescendo and sforzando pedal. Balanced pedals (two): choir and swell. All the stops are in the swell box except the open diapason in the great organ. There are 61 notes in the manual and 30 in the pedals, which is the full standard size. The pneumatic action operates the pipes without mechanical connection, by means of a large m'lnber of small tubes, one for each note, leading from the keyboard to the organ. The action is very light and elastic, but not so treacherously easy as some of the first pneumatic-action organs that were built. This system is·made by the Weigle company in Stuttgart, and has been in use since 1889.

In 1935, the unnecessary mutilation of the Richardso'n interior began with the installation of a chancel in the old organ chamber. Above the stalls for the divided choir were deep chambers for a three-manual AEolian-Skinner organ, Opus 937, and the plain pipe-fence fronts faced only into the chancel. The church was demolished in 1963, and a three...;manual Berkshire organ, essentially the 1937 instrmnent, was dedicated in the new building on March 1, 1964.

Our member Jim Lewis of Hollywood, California, has provided the editor with sever al items pertaining to old organs in that state. The following item is from the California Independent, Los Angeles, January 15, 1898: PIPE ORGAN BUILDING IN OUR CITY. We were surprised and delighted, one day this week, by a visit to the pipe organ manufactory of Nfr. Murray W. Harris, located at 657-659 San Fernando November 1971 Page 8 str9et (formerly .Upper Main street). It will no doubt be welcome news to many of our readers to know that pipe organs are beinr; constructed .in Los Angeles that are in no particular inferior to the best articles constrt.lCted in large eastern cities. Mr. Harris' education in this line of handicraft was obtained in Boston, in the la~gest and finest organ fac~ory in Americao To this training he adds natural ability of a high order in toning and developing the musical powers 'of these wonderful instruments, possessed by but few men. He has charge of nearly all the large organs in Southern California. He has also quite a bu~iness .in re-building and re-voicing organs, and in every case leaves them in finer con dition .than they we~C'e originally. Notc.>~ble instances of this are the. organs of the Immanuel Presbyterian Chtrrch and St. John's Episcopal Church of this city, . and the one in St. Paul's Episcopal Church of San Diego. M:r. Harris has the only pipe organ factory west of St. Louis. All parts of the complicated machinery are made here. The wood largely entering into the construction of these organs is our California sugar pine, pronounced by ex perts, superior for its resonant qualities to the white pine; used by eastern ho11ses, or to any other wood yet discovered. As samples of the work done by this firm, we call attention to the ·new organ in the University of Southern California, the one in the Jewish Synagogue, and a fine instrtunent now being made for the Lincoln Avenue M. E. Church in . Pasadena, secured in co:npetition with· eight eastern firms. We feel a great interest and pride in this notable addition to the manufac turing industry in our city, and urge all who contemplte putting in pipe organs to give Mr. Harris a chance to give figures. He requires no cash until the // org.. :m is set 11p, and gives entire satisfaction. 1

On August 28, 1897, the California Ind!=Jpendent published ad escription of Geo. S. Hutchings' Opus 421, a a2-i9llby the-flrm thatprobably employed Murray W. Harris;

THE ~v U1DVERSITY CHURCH ORGAN. The new pipe organ just completed in the University M. E. Church of Los Ange les comes from the well-known organ builder, Geo. s. Hutchings, of Boston.,OWing to the' lack of space in depth in the church, the organ has been built in a pe culiar manner, spreading it out at either side and mounting it high. This gives the instrument a veryimposing effect. The exterior comprises a casing of se lec,ted quartered oak, supporting groups of pipes, richly decorated in gold and colors, harmonizing with the church decoration. ) The organ is voiced with the utmost nicety,: and special attention is called to its ton<:tl character. For the information of organists and other musical people, a full description of its contents is here appended: ••• A concert will be given by the. choir under the direction of Prof. Williams, on Friday evening, September 3, in which the new organ will perform an impor tant part~ ·----· GREf,.T: SWELL: PEDAL: Open Diapason m 8 1 61 Bourdon w 16t 49 Bourdon w 16t 30 Dulciana m 8 1 61 1Violin Diapason w&m 8t 61 Clarabella w 8t 61 Salicional m Sr 61 Swell to Great Octave m 4 1 61 AEoli.ne 8' blank Great to Pedal Rohr Flute 4t blank Stopped Diapason w 8t 61 SWell to Pedal Super Octave ,m 2' 61 Flute Harmonique m 4t 61 Blowerl s Signal Oboe m 81 49 Wind Indicator The Violin Diapason had a 12- !!pedal Movements": note stopped bass of wood; Forte, Great Organ the Salicional had a stopped Piano, Great Organ bass of metal. 'Svvell Tremolo Balanced SvJell Pedal THE BOSTON ORGAN CLUB NEVfSLETTER

Vol. 7, No. 11, \!Thole No. 72 December 1971 The 1972 membership forms are enclosed with this issue of the Newsletter. You are urged to complete the form and return it to our treasurer soon. Several persons are receiving gift subscriptions and many have already sent their-dues. The 1971 member ship has been the largest ever, and our bank account contains a pleasing balance at the end of the year.

MIXTURES - George Bozeman, Jr., for several years a member of the Noack Organ Company, is now· an independent builder; his address is 96 Maple Avenue, Andover, ~/[ass., 01810. Daniel Angerstein and Allen Kinzey, formerly of the .AEolian-Skinner Organ Company, have their new shop at 299 East S-treet, 1i\Trentham, Mass., 02093. The following recitals will be given on the three-manual Fisk organ in the First Congregational Church, Winchester, ]~ass., Sunday evenings at 8 o'clock: John Skelton, Jan. 23; Carolyn Skelton, March 12; Martha Folts, April 16; and Yuko Hayashi, May 28. The Andover Organ Company has contracted to reno~ate and tonally improve two two manual tracker organs: Hook & Hastings opus 1146, 1883, in the United Church, Green wich, N.Y., and W. A. Johnson opus 253, 1868, in the Federated Church, Greensboro, vt. An altered 2-7 Hook & Hastings, opus 1700, 1896, was dedicated in St. Columba 1 s Episcopal Church, Bristol, Tenn., on November lh. ];Tr. Peck Daniel must be credited with making a very playable instrument from an incomplete pile of wreckage! Leonard Berghaus of Chicago has completely rebuilt the large tviJO-manual E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings, opus 648, 1872, in the First Baptist Church, Lafayette, Indiana. The organ is now a 2-29 with much new pipe1111ork and the opening recital was played by Robert Schuneman, editor of The Diapason, on November 7. The following item.appeai'ed· in daily papers this month: Spalding, England (UPI)--A chorus of 15-year-old schoolboys today claimed a new world record for nonstop hymn singing. Aided by five boxes of throat pas tilles, they belted out hymns for 48 hours, three longer than the previous record, said an official at Spalding Township secondary school. }1ore unpleasant is this December i tern: Hamel Hempstead, England (UPI) - Andy Hessenger, 10, suffered a black eye when he was caught in the crossfire of a mince-pie battle between rival Christ mas carolling groups outside the local Baptist church. Christopher C. Lavoie of Ludlow, Hass., has purchased a 2-12 Woodberry & Harris organ from Bruce Porter of Walpole, N.H. The organ was built in 1890 for the Greens Farms Congregational Church, Westport, Conn., and served tmtil 1961. It is being restored and will be installed in a new addition to the Lavoie house. Recent recitals on tracker organs: Charles R. I~igbaum at the Congregational Chtrrch, Killingworth, Conn., on September 26 (rededi